Why Will No-One Publish My Novel? by Fay Weldon
Author:Fay Weldon [Weldon, Fay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788544603
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Make something drastic happen
It would be possible to fit a whole novel in between someone putting the milk on the stove and it boiling over, to have the saucepan either snatched away in time, or not – but there are easier ways of making your readers pay attention. Let volcanoes erupt, memory be lost, war divide families. Do always try and get out of the kitchen, out of the house.
Just don’t disappoint your readers. They have bought your book, preferred your company to their own, or they hope they will now they’ve handed over their hard-earned money. At stake is not just money; they are trusting a patch of their precious life to you. That is really flattering. The readers want a little relief from their own life – whether too boring, tragic or troubling – so do them proud. They want something from you that their own life isn’t offering, be it entertainment, explanation, understanding, sympathy, fellow feeling, a sense of order and of justice. Real life is chaotic and without apparent meaning. Fictional life is ordered, structured and finite. ‘The End’, you write, and that’s that, safely locked up and put away: an alternative universe understood and completed, one to treasure. The stronger the events in it the better. Blow up the volcano, join them on holiday in North Korea, set the whole thing in a submarine, just get out of the house. Agents will love you.
Of course you’re going to express yourself one way or another but do it tactfully. Hard sell won’t work, only your art of gentle persuasion. Of course you want your reader to end up thinking and feeling and acting exactly like you do: just don’t let it show.
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