I'm in the process of finalizing the outline for book 2 in the Bubba and Giganto series.
Have to say it's never easy thinking about the end of any book, let alone a series where the characters have grown on you. However, with these two characters, I see a long line of books to pit these two in different situations.
I'm mentioning this only because today I had a writer who emailed me, upset that she had to submit her manuscript. This puzzled me because one would think she'd be glad for the rest of the world to meet her character. Not so. Her worry stemmed from a fear a publisher or editor would change her character's profile. Interesting. I've been lucky so far and had no publisher ask me to alter any of my main characters but I'm wondering how many writers out there have had a situation where you felt your character suddenly changed - for the better or worse? - after an edit?
Looking forward to reading your comments in 2010. Have a great night!
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Not a fear I'd thought of yet, never having had a publisher.
But as a writer, Sheila, is there one thing that scares you the most about this business?
I once had an editor ask for a total rewrite of a short story which involved changing how I perceived my main character. I struggled with it, but eventually decided the editor knew his readers better than I did and reworked the story. I ended up selling the story to him, so I felt it was worth it.
For some reason, I'm more afraid to share my WIP with other writers/readers than I am to send a work off to a publisher. Go figure :-)
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