Progress Report #7–HALFWAY!

(^^^it’s me and hell was the Dreaded Middle™️)

The funny thing is I finished editing the Dreaded Middle™️ two months ago and then I had a sadistic thought:

Why don’t I give a query letter/elevator pitch/tagline a whirl?

So I did…

The thing about collapsing a 100k word story into 150 words (then a few sentences then a couple of words) is it has a great way of revealing story-level problems.

And that’s what happened. ABig Problemsurfaced.

So, these months I’ve been silent have been filled with a lot of work, but progress too:

• ✍️ Added a major plot thread and rewrote the beginning
• ✍️ Rewrote the hook (it’s very hooky!)
• ✍️ Streamlined minor plot threads
• ✍️ Dropped a minor POV and gave the content to the male protag (sorry Jack)
• ✍️ Rewrote/heavily revised eight chapters (fml)
• ✍️ Wrote a pretty decent query letter (process sucked, outcome worth it)

It was hell, but 10/10 would do it again. Onwards…