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Amanda Cockrell's avatar

Oh that hits home. The agent who sold my YA novel told me while I was gnawing it to pieces revising that if you come to a section that you try to skip over with summary so you don’t have to put your character through that, that probably means it’s the heart of the book and you had better deal with it.

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Sarah Sunfire's avatar

Wow, FANTASTIC insight, thank you for sharing! I wish I could say it was as unselfish as not wanting to put my protagonist through that, though. It was really that *I* didn't want to feel all these feelings. I'm pretty sure *she's* ready, likely wondering why I've been chickening out on her story for four years.

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Amanda Cockrell's avatar

My experience has been that if I don’t want to put my protagonist through something it’s mainly because I don’t want to put me through it. That was certainly true that time.

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Sarah Sunfire's avatar

This is why I spent my 20's writing about a lot of shit I wanted to be doing. HOW DID THOSE MANUSCRIPTS NOT GO ANYWHERE, sigh.

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