Coming Back and Learning

It has been a while since I wrote one of these blogs. I put all the auxiliary stuff in being an author on hold to focus on just writing and especially editing the books that I had written. It has proven fruitful, as these stories read so differently now. A lot of my time now is just focused on editing, and I know what to look for and how to construct sentences and paragraphs better. While the process can be grueling, the result has made me satisfied.

So, I am back to blogging and sending queries letters for one of my stories, The Land of The Wooden Statues. It is a story that I feel is complete and written well. I still have issues with style, but the substance is there and tells a good story. I learned a lot when it came to characterization, and I understand that depending on the situation, the characters will act a certain way that makes sense. An ignorant character (like one of my characters, The Mustard Prince) is not going to casually approach new places like he had been there before, for example. As an author, I need to express what he feels, sees, hears, etc.

This will be a battle of patience, perseverance and rejection that I must be ready for. When I first sent query letters, I sent them with an incomplete, and quite honestly, not well-written story. This time, I feel that I upped my level as an author with consideration to carefully crafted sentences and stronger characterization. I can only hope and pray that my stories will be accepted by a literary agent this time around.