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by Wryan
May 7th, 2010, 4:07 pm
Forum: Ask Nathan
Topic: Old Ask Nathan Thread
Replies: 793
Views: 405299

Re: Ask Nathan

Hi Nathan,

I had an agent request for my full manuscript. She ultimately passed, saying that the subject matter was more fit for middle grade, but the tone was young adult.

I've never seen a good differentiation between middle grade and young adult. What, would you say, is the difference?
by Wryan
May 7th, 2010, 11:32 am
Forum: Finding An Agent
Topic: Waiting Time
Replies: 10
Views: 4667

Re: Waiting Time

Well, the agent said no. She said she enjoyed a lot of elements in the plot, and she was drawn into the story (and was even "dying to know" some plot elements at the end), but ultimately felt it was a middle grade novel, not a young adult one, and that issue couldn't be fixed just by aging...
by Wryan
April 1st, 2010, 2:35 pm
Forum: Writing
Topic: Hot & Cold!
Replies: 22
Views: 7902

Re: Hot & Cold!

Never. I remain eternally convinced of my own genius, and any paean that can't grasp this is clearly addled in the head. Nah, it happens to me. A lot. A lot a lot. Sometimes I'll be writing and think, "Ugh, this is the most disgusting sentence ever set down in the English language." Then I...
by Wryan
April 1st, 2010, 2:12 pm
Forum: Finding An Agent
Topic: Waiting Time
Replies: 10
Views: 4667

Re: Waiting Time

Thank you, Evelyn, if I have any questions I'll know who I can ask :) As for how I found the guts to send out my full manuscript... I dunno, I just sort of did it. I'm not trying to write something that can be stuck on the shelf of great literature next to Shakespeare and Milton, I just wanted to wr...
by Wryan
March 31st, 2010, 9:22 pm
Forum: Finding An Agent
Topic: Waiting Time
Replies: 10
Views: 4667

Re: Waiting Time

I'm involved with a student-run theater group on campus, along with my university's model United Nations team. I had a bad week first semester where I went to Philadelphia for four days, came back, and proceeded into production week for my show. My classes got very angry with me after that :P As for...
by Wryan
March 31st, 2010, 9:19 pm
Forum: Finding An Agent
Topic: Waiting Time
Replies: 10
Views: 4667

Re: Waiting Time

Ahaha, don't worry, I don't put off schoolwork. I gave up all of my extracurricular activities this semester so I could focus on my homework and my writing. I enjoy my homework (most of the time), anyway; I'm one of those unfortunate nerd-types.
by Wryan
March 31st, 2010, 9:05 pm
Forum: Finding An Agent
Topic: Waiting Time
Replies: 10
Views: 4667

Waiting Time

I got the most exciting email of my life two weeks ago today, when an agent (whom I'd forgotten that I'd even queried) asked to read my full manuscript. Hooray, first request for a full! I did a quick reread of everything and emailed my beast off to her on Thursday. She responded promptly with, &quo...
by Wryan
December 16th, 2009, 6:23 pm
Forum: Procrastination
Topic: So...Star Wars or Star Trek?
Replies: 45
Views: 21718

Re: So...Star Wars or Star Trek?

Star Wars. Yoda and Obi-Wan are better than Kirk and Spock any day. The other characters don't count.
by Wryan
December 14th, 2009, 3:40 pm
Forum: Writing
Topic: Hand vs. Type
Replies: 24
Views: 9555

Re: Hand vs. Type

I always walk by the fancy notebooks at the bookstore and think how nice it would be to whip one of those out and go, "Why yes, I wrote my third novel in this. Italian leather, you know." But every time I sit down and try to write by hand, I barely get anywhere. I start off writing exclusi...
by Wryan
December 14th, 2009, 3:33 pm
Forum: Writing
Topic: Naming Characters
Replies: 14
Views: 8495

Re: Naming Characters

For my project, I went straight to the Bible for names. None of the characters are religious, no is there a big Christian theme in the book. But it's set in a world faintly based on Colonial America, and a lot of the names back then (or the names I've encountered in biographies, at least) seem to be...
by Wryan
December 11th, 2009, 2:43 pm
Forum: Writing
Topic: How do you know your writing is good enough?
Replies: 32
Views: 16182

Re: How do you know your writing is good enough?

I don't know if my writing is good enough or not. I do know when I've written something that doesn't satisfy me personally. If I don't like it, I'm not going to put it out there. Only when I've written something that I can be proud of do I turn it over to the fearsome masses. Satisfying yourself is ...
by Wryan
December 11th, 2009, 2:34 pm
Forum: Writing
Topic: Male Protagonists in Young Adult Fiction
Replies: 9
Views: 7159

Re: Male Protagonists in Young Adult Fiction

She said that publishers presume boys won't read and don't publish for them. Boys have nothing published for them and so don't read. And the cycle never ends... When I was younger, that frustrated me to no end. If didn't have the time to go read lengthy "adult" books, or if I was just in ...
by Wryan
December 9th, 2009, 6:30 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: What author would you have dinner with/what would you ask?
Replies: 49
Views: 19003

Re: What author would you have dinner with/what would you ask?

Does Thomas Jefferson count? Writing was obviously amongst his many, many talents. Very few people can give me chills when I read their work, but he manages to do that frequently. Though I think if I were sitting down to dinner with him, I'd be too nervous to say anything and would spill my drink al...
by Wryan
December 9th, 2009, 12:16 pm
Forum: Writing
Topic: Outline or Out of the Mist?
Replies: 50
Views: 27691

Re: Outline or Out of the Mist?

I try very desperately to not be an Out of the Mister. I sit down and write outlines that map the story I have in mind very precisely. I think, "Oh, how clever I am, look at this brilliant story arc that I'm going to wedge in between Chapters 14 and 37!" And I get very smug for a while. An...