Was 'The Alchemist's Heir' ready for its
close-up? God, I hope so.
After several serious rewrites (including chucking
out 30,000 words to write a different ending) I'd reached the point where I was
fiddling with sentence structure for the sake of it, and obsessing about the
teeny-tiny stuff. I could have put
it in a drawer for a month or two, and come back to it with a fresh eye for (yet
another) go-through.
But I decided instead to put a toe in the
water and send it out to a couple of carefully selected agents.
To be honest I've been writing this novel
for so long (about five years, off and on) I thought I'd explode if I didn't get
it off my desk, if only for a month or two.
So, into Agent-land it went.. I think we're ready for our close-up, Mr de Mille.
(Is it just me, or is Gloria Swanson actually
pretty hot in Sunset Boulevard?
She's supposed to be a crumbling, delusional movie star, but from where I'm
standing, she looks in damn fine nick.
I suspect the key to the mystery lies in the phrase 'from where I'm standing'.)
'Words, words, more words..."
#findinganagent
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