Good! Er... bad! Um... both! In any case, I'm certainly glad it wasn't worse.
I'd also point to item seven here (http://www.mil-millington.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/writing.htm?urlID=814655365) out of a very sensible-looking list; it may be that your novel is perfectly fine and it's just thet the first 16 agents you try are too dense to recognise it. However, when you get to agent seventeen and they all say the same thing, perhaps they know better than you after all.
I'm trying to reconcile the fact that it's good for you to be your own harshest critic with the fact that you shouldn't be too put off by other people's criticism; if you genuinely do think there was too much crammed in all along, then all well and good and take the appropriate remedial action, but I doubt you would have sent it to an agent if you really did think that and it might well be that you are just letting the agent perusade you as to what you might have believed at the time.
My guide to being published is just to get damn lucky, be in the right place at the right time and find a vacancy for a book to be written, which is much easier said than done. (Refer to "get damn lucky" above.)
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Date: 2004-12-18 10:05 am (UTC)I'd also point to item seven here (http://www.mil-millington.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/writing.htm?urlID=814655365) out of a very sensible-looking list; it may be that your novel is perfectly fine and it's just thet the first 16 agents you try are too dense to recognise it. However, when you get to agent seventeen and they all say the same thing, perhaps they know better than you after all.
I'm trying to reconcile the fact that it's good for you to be your own harshest critic with the fact that you shouldn't be too put off by other people's criticism; if you genuinely do think there was too much crammed in all along, then all well and good and take the appropriate remedial action, but I doubt you would have sent it to an agent if you really did think that and it might well be that you are just letting the agent perusade you as to what you might have believed at the time.
My guide to being published is just to get damn lucky, be in the right place at the right time and find a vacancy for a book to be written, which is much easier said than done. (Refer to "get damn lucky" above.)