At our November meeting, we welcomed a promising new writer to our group, Melissa Sullivan. This was after a broad, extended, patient, and very selective search. Congrats, Melissa!
Melissa came to our attention through the Bucks County Writers Workshop. She is working on a novel with an uncommon format, in which the reader learns about the protagonist and her challenges and journey through a series of short stories each in the point of view of a different character that encounters the protag at different periods of her life. We look forward to seeing more of this project and hope to be a positive influence on it.
As we try to do at each meeting, we discussed each Rebel’s current work. We drifted into acknowledging, for the manyth time, the dedication that an erstwhile novelist must have in the current environment, to break into a fiction market that is hardened and fragmented. Of course, it takes talent too. And luck. In any creative field, it’s about being in the right place at the right time with the right thing –– and always has been.
Rebels are now taking a two-month hiatus from gathering, to focus down, each of us individually, on our respective novel projects over the holidaze and first few weeks of the new year. Time to put the hours in an plunge forward. Go, Rebs!
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