Title : Sarah Tolcser, author of SONG OF THE CURRENT, on the only way out being through
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Sarah Tolcser, author of SONG OF THE CURRENT, on the only way out being through
We are pleased to have author Sarah Tolcser here today to chat about her debut novel, SONG OF THE CURRENT.
Sarah, how long did you work on SONG OF THE CURRENT?
I started drafting the book in spring 2013 and finished in about six months. By April I had signed with my agent, and after that we revised the book for another year before going on submission. During revisions, I cut 25,000 words from the book. It was four years total from first draft to publication.
Was there an AHA! moment along your road to publication where something suddenly sank in and you felt you had the key to writing a novel? What was it?
For me it wasn’t the key to writing a novel that I needed. It was the key to revising a novel. Before SONG OF THE CURRENT, I’d written a bunch of books with huge issues, and I’d always get to a point where I realized the problems with the book were so big it made more sense to shelve it and move onto the next thing. But when you’re working with an agent or editor, you can’t do that anymore. You have deadlines and you have to learn to plow through the problems. You don’t have a choice. The only way out is through. In the last two years I’ve learned so much about rewriting a book, I’m pretty sure I like it better than drafting now.
I started drafting the book in spring 2013 and finished in about six months. By April I had signed with my agent, and after that we revised the book for another year before going on submission. During revisions, I cut 25,000 words from the book. It was four years total from first draft to publication.
Was there an AHA! moment along your road to publication where something suddenly sank in and you felt you had the key to writing a novel? What was it?
For me it wasn’t the key to writing a novel that I needed. It was the key to revising a novel. Before SONG OF THE CURRENT, I’d written a bunch of books with huge issues, and I’d always get to a point where I realized the problems with the book were so big it made more sense to shelve it and move onto the next thing. But when you’re working with an agent or editor, you can’t do that anymore. You have deadlines and you have to learn to plow through the problems. You don’t have a choice. The only way out is through. In the last two years I’ve learned so much about rewriting a book, I’m pretty sure I like it better than drafting now.
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