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the ins and outs & ups and downs of a new novelist's journey

Join the Wave!!! November 30, 2009

Filed under: Fuel Your Writing,fun :) — Eden Tyler @ 4:25 pm
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So, yeah, I still haven’t been around. But, I’m back to writing Avalon and am hoping to be Truly finished soon.

For those of you who still happen to stop by even though I’ve been incredibly boring of late ;) , I’d like to offer some of my Google Wave invites. I have two accounts, and I know most people already have an invite (and account) by now, but the amount of invites I have is just ridiculous, so I’d like to offer TEN to the first people who either:
1) follow @fuelyourwriting on twitter — and then leave a comment here letting me know you did so
or
2) go on to fuelyourwriting.com and choose one of the fabulous articles that looks the most interesting to you and leave a comment for the equally fabulous author (but of course, since s/he wrote said article!) speaking your writerly mind =) (is that a word? idk and i don’t care;)) and then let me know…

I’ll contact the first ten people who have done this through the email address you leave with your comment (which is why I asked for a second comment here after commenting at FYW) and I’ll then send you your invite.
Easy peasy =)

xx -e*

 

dilemma. August 26, 2009

Filed under: Help! — Eden Tyler @ 12:03 pm
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So I’ve been asking around Twitter as to what I should do with my book…

I’ve recently changed my MC from 17 to 18 and now 20 years old. At the moment, she’s in college. But crossover doesn’t sell well, if at all.

Which leads to the question::

a) Do I change Alexis back to 17 and have her ‘excel’ — so that she’s starting her first year at community college?

This option would add more depth — she actually is an extremely smart girl with a photographic memory, which I haven’t been able to showcase that much..
My book would stay YA, but I’d have to make it so teens can relate to such an individual — which shouldn’t be too hard…

But there’s another option….

b) Should I make her 24 and just out of college and working/or looking for work?

This choice would be good because of the adult content. The prologue is extremely violent and the rest of the book is rather thriller-like. Plus, there’s a sex scene later on that I’ve been concerned about. And my character starts out the book drinking to blur the line — is she drunk or dreaming or having a vision or is it all real???
Also, the ending is not a HEA—not at all.

I don’t want to underestimate teens as I know they deal with these issues and might eat up something with more edge.. But, I have read adult books with YA pacing (which my book definitely has) and I devoured them. Quick and compelling, but I didn’t feel I was having to change my frame of mind to read YA.

A publisher told me that the adult market is more lucrative than YA, but that I should take note of where I want my career to end up and what my platform already is and such… So I think I have my answer, but if anyone wants to weigh in, I’d greatly appreciate it!

Which option would you pick?  a or b???

 

140 characters. July 9, 2009

Filed under: fun :),writing exercises — Eden Tyler @ 11:17 am
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So I just spent a couple minutes coming up with a Twitter pitch.
Once my character count became 0, I stopped.
I’ll rewrite it soon—spruce it up a bit.
But this is what I have as of now::

Visionary dreams show Alexis she’s a faery and must join with a Depraved one to defeat true evil. But will she succumb to that evil herself?

Have any of you tried this yet? If not, you should.
I thought that my one-hundred-word pitch was difficult. I had to work quite a while to make it right. But only 140 characters to tell an entire novel….

 

twitter. June 24, 2009

Filed under: Progress!,fun :) — Eden Tyler @ 10:46 am
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twitterwink

yep.
i gave in to the madness.
i joined.
so did alexis/kellyn.
it’s insanity.

k, i’m off to write. for real.
i have to at least finish this chapter today.
maybe i’ll post it. i probably will. =)
later!!

xx

ok, i lied. i’ll post it tomorrow….
it’s 4pm and i’ve other stuff to do

 

blogging, part II. June 19, 2009

Filed under: Help!,lesson learned. — Eden Tyler @ 4:32 pm
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so, i was feeling rather crappy about the fact that i’ve done nothing but blog. and to top that off, i was so unsure about the dang blog i wrote on giveagirl that i posted the first comment on it to explain what i was really trying to say…

anyway, i was starting to think that blogging was futile, until i came across this!

now, (on top of my daily word goal i just commented about on my ‘it’s 1 pm…’ post), i have two new goals.
plus, a brand-new sense of confidence. YAY for me, right?!?!??
goal #1:: blog, blog, blog. possibly blog my work. maybe i’ll do a serial blog of my first book. we’ll see…
goal #2:: (and this is the cool one!) start a twitter for my MC. i had promised myself that i would stay away from twitter at all costs. but, after a blog that led me to a blog that led me to the one i linked ya’ll to, i’ve changed my mind.
thing is, i’ve no clue how to go about it. but, if people can get interested in my girl, and i can learn more about her by getting into her head every day, that would certainly help my writing, right?!?!?? it’d have to!!!
i’m a bit OCD, and i have a strong feeling that if i get so completely involved in alexis’ life, that i’ll have no choice but to sit down and write her story. i’ll want anything and everything to be about her. then, voila, my book will be done. (hey, i can hope, right? ;) )

so, i guess the point of all of this rambling is
A) to send ya’ll to the link, &
B) to ask for advice on twitter. because i’ve never gone near the site before and don’t have a clue as to what it’s all about.
any help would be sublime =)

xx
-e*