{"id":1135,"date":"2019-12-31T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-29T20:10:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T00:10:38","slug":"monthly-summary-december-2019yearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/monthly-summary-december-2019yearly\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Summary: December 2019\/Yearly Wanderings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n2019 has been a pretty good year. I feel like the first half of it was epic then the latter half still had good moments but the majority got kinda weird. Things happened that made me cry in absolute joy and then others that made me sob in grief and worry. So I\u2019m very split when it comes to my overall opinion of the last year of this decade.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>1.)\u00a0This month:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>So at the beginning of this month I got some critique from my agent and she suggested a lot of big changes for\u00a0Red Hood<\/i>. I didn\u2019t mind the critique. I mean I\u2019ve gotten tons of critique but I wished she\u2019d looked at it earlier because I felt like I wasted a whole year submitting a book that could be better. So I grappled with that feeling for the majority of the month. Now I\u2019m at the point where I\u2019m figuring out a new game plan for next year and I\u2019m going to be rewriting the first five chapters so I can get the book back out there at least while I try to revise the rest. I\u2019ve been discussing with some friends on how to proceed and I think I\u2019ve got a good idea of what I want to do with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also been revising a pitch for my agent for a big rewrite of\u00a0Starbloods<\/i>\u00a0now called\u00a0In Darkest Starlight<\/i>. Would this story interest you guys?<\/span><\/p>\n

A young sorcerer suffers under a curse that enslaves his will to a tyrannical sorceress and he must manipulate two innocents into killing her for him or spend the rest of his life as her henchman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve been plodding along with\u00a0Silver Hood<\/i>. I really like the plot if I can just get the darn thing written. I\u2019m almost there!<\/span>
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\nThis year:<\/b> Well, first and foremost I got an agent which has been amazing and validating. I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s almost been a year since I signed with the agency. My agent has been sending my book out to publishers I couldn\u2019t dream of reaching on my own and though I haven\u2019t gotten a yes yet I\u2019m trying to be patient until the right publisher comes along. I got the right agent. Now for the right publisher.<\/span>
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