My last post was around New Year's. It's now Labor Day. While I haven't been blogging, I have been painstakingly editing Wielder of All . I realized recently that next month, October 2024, will mark 10 years since I wrote the first word of Wielder. In the past decade I've decided to pursue self-publishing instead of traditional, created the bones of a website and social media presence, and cut the first 30,000 words of my original manuscript. That last one hurt. I "finished" Wielder of All in 2016 or 2017. I know I reached the end of the story I wanted to tell in the first book, but I had no idea how far from really "finished" I was. What I had was a proofread first draft that wasn't ready to be shared with anyone except a professional editor. Instead of editing, I wrote several query letters to agents and got some good notes, but one particular piece of advice rubbed me the wrong way, not because it was bad feedback, but because I w...
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