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As to the project status as we begin: I have a draft that begins at a beginning, goes on through a middle, and arrives at an end without having any "I'll draft out this bit later" holes in it. It's about 100,000 words, which is a nice enough size for a stand-alone novel, and it's in what programmers would call "feature lock", which is to say that, as far as I can see, this is pretty much its final overall shape and it would be Extremely Complicated to go back and insert any more major events into the plot.
I am currently engaged in an edit of this draft, which at the moment involves entirely too much of waiting around for my Mum to finish reading the current printout (paper may grow on trees, but TONER, alas, doesn't). Editing is projected to take, well, as long as it takes; I'm getting quite happy with how it looks, happy enough in fact that I finally sat down yesterday to write up the synopsis I'll need for sending it round. The query letter is also drafted out, although I could be happier with it.
Current plans are to submit directly to the one or two markets that still accept unagented submissions in the hopes of getting a nibble I can wave under an agent's nose... I'll need an agent, certainly, but I've read it's at least a bit easier to interest one if you can point to favorable responses from publishers.
I'm trying not to do too much work on the sequel(s) yet in case this one flops, but I do have some designs in that direction, so I've been doing research and jotting down scenes and fragments as they come to me. Which may be a journal in itself someday...
I am currently engaged in an edit of this draft, which at the moment involves entirely too much of waiting around for my Mum to finish reading the current printout (paper may grow on trees, but TONER, alas, doesn't). Editing is projected to take, well, as long as it takes; I'm getting quite happy with how it looks, happy enough in fact that I finally sat down yesterday to write up the synopsis I'll need for sending it round. The query letter is also drafted out, although I could be happier with it.
Current plans are to submit directly to the one or two markets that still accept unagented submissions in the hopes of getting a nibble I can wave under an agent's nose... I'll need an agent, certainly, but I've read it's at least a bit easier to interest one if you can point to favorable responses from publishers.
I'm trying not to do too much work on the sequel(s) yet in case this one flops, but I do have some designs in that direction, so I've been doing research and jotting down scenes and fragments as they come to me. Which may be a journal in itself someday...