November 2009
2 posts
>Emma - The Beginning
I’d started on my novel only the week before I heard about the mentoring scheme. I’d been concentrating on short stories, and had had some success in getting them published, but the idea for the novel was swimming around inside my head and I had finally decided it was time to let it out. I’d written about 8,000 words and a rough outline when I sent off my sample chapter. When I was accepted onto...
>Jamie- The Start
I didn’t exactly have a blank page when I started the mentoring scheme.
I had about 60,000 words to go on to my projected 120,000 word first draft. (I know, too long, but I intend to lose 20,000 odd on the second draft)
It felt like a blank page though.
I have had individual chapters critiqued on a writers forum and a couple of friends have read parts of it (never trust what friends say...