#Wordweavers Day 3 - Is your MC a good cook? Any special dishes?

Yeah, oddly enough...

Currently, the book opens with a brief cosmic birth "dream" sequence where Walen experiences a 3rd person reliving of a time he was naked in a lover's kitchen flipping omelettes for their post love snack.

IDK about Minerva, because I hadn't thought about it...
I'm going to guess she's a protein bars & hot pockets kinda gal TBH 🤣

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My debut novel is with my agent, and I have now begun a monthly series on how I wrote Hiram Falls: the origin, the revisions, the changes, an intimate look at one writer's process: https://geoffreygevalt.substack.com/s/writing-hiram-falls

(Subscribe for free and you get a bonus: text and audio of character sketches performed by Vermont Stage Company.)

My first post: An 1892 diary of a teenage girl...
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Sometimes magic happens. I just received word that a kick-ass agent with jewels for clients has agreed to represent my book, #HiramFalls

Hurdle one is cleared. Now for the second ...

Finding an agent seemed a dreary enterprise, and I feel blessed that my misery lasted but six weeks.

Spring in #Vermont: We got a dump of 14-16 inches of heavy wet snow, and were house bound April 4 & 5. When is spring coming?

But it was a great opportunity to finish making a final pass -- clean-up and tightening -- on #HiramFalls

I just sent out the finished manuscript to a potential agent who asked to see it.

Wish me luck!

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Finished!

First novel.
5 years.
6 staged character sketches.
10 drafts.
Immeasurable help from others.

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I started to dig into my editor’s comments today. Have I mentioned that they used to edit for Penguin Random House and BBC’s Doctor Who? I’ll take their vote of confidence.

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Thought I was just about done with the draft of my first novel. Opened it up today to go over the entire thing again, promising myself that I'd only make minor edits, if any. A promise broken as early as the prologue... 😅

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Power, poses and conventions:

„no one liked it when Helen remarked that it seemed to her as wrong to keep sailors as to keep a Zoo, and that as for dying on a battle-field, surely it was time we ceased to praise courage — "or to write bad poetry about it," snarled Pepper.“