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[thesettingsun]

So clothes and plants being green again is super cool and everything but this is important enough to get its own post:

I finished the second draft of my novel!

Now I have to run it by some editors before I send the manuscript to a publisher. I've already edited it from my first draft, but other eyes won't hurt, you know?

There are some people who already asked to see it (Fai) and some people I was going to ask to look at it (John B., please help me as my non-science-fiction-reading friend) but if you want to take a while to go through it and give an opinion or tell me if I missed a typo I'd be happy to send you the text!

Chiyo, let's talk about cover art?

[Shuji will be quick to send anyone who asks the manuscript, which I have not written out the entire novel for, but you can have an excerpt and some notes?]

Comments

[thesettingsun]

I'm not saying EVERYONE is an elitist. Just that elitism is old as dirt.

[drydrown]

Well, in literature's case it's not as though some skepticism, at the least, is completely unwarranted. You've been talking like you're certain you've written the next great American novel, after all, and I'm certain you're not the only one out there that thinks they have.

[thesettingsun]

That isn't what I mean at all. Of course my novel could be 'eh', I'm not that much of an egotist. What I'm talking about is dismissing the entire genre as less than 'real literature' without even considering the contents of the books.