Who Is This Guy?
Oct. 5th, 2004 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloRichard and Judy (The British Oprah) are running a competition for unpublished novelists. I've already sent them Devilkins (my latest).
But the rules say nothing about multiple submissions so I thought I'd also send them Saxon River (which I wrote a couple of years back.) But, oh dear- who is this guy who wrote this stuff? It's so arch, so clumsy, So naive!
Do I want to try and rewrite it, or do I just drop it back into the bottom drawer?
Two years ago this was the story I desperately wanted to tell and now I can't see why.
But the rules say nothing about multiple submissions so I thought I'd also send them Saxon River (which I wrote a couple of years back.) But, oh dear- who is this guy who wrote this stuff? It's so arch, so clumsy, So naive!
Do I want to try and rewrite it, or do I just drop it back into the bottom drawer?
Two years ago this was the story I desperately wanted to tell and now I can't see why.
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Date: 2004-10-05 01:06 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-05 02:07 pm (UTC)I like it. Right at the end where the son comes back in I got a little prickling of the scalp. So he loves his mother really.
And he has inherited her gift.
I like Mme Raya's voice. The prissiness, the over-sweetness. She's a dear old duck but you understand why her son might find her a trial.
The one thing I wanted more of was the murderer. I guess I wanted to hear in more detail about him and Alice and why he killed her. Also the longer he raves the more we're kept in suspense.
But it's a super story.