The Hunger Games

One of my favorite books is now a movie. I loved how they kept it close to the original source. In the post apocalyptic ruins of what used to be America, the districts are divided into 12 factions. Because the factions were always at odds with one another the government made The Hunger Games a televised event in which each district will send in one girl and one boy from the ages of 12-17 to compete in a fight to the death tournament.

I liked the book, once you get past the first fifty pages and get into the part where Katniss is in the games the story gets really good. I highly recommend people see it.

Querying

Okay so I am going to send out query letters. I'm hoping for something. I'm going to be querying just a little over 100 agents. I really hope one of them likes my story. I know publishing has changed but I'll have to see what happens, and I've already written the sequel to the story  and outlining the last book for the planned trilogy. 

I just have my fingers crossed.

Time to Edit

Alright, this draft has been asleep for a long time and now it's time to pull it back out and work on it. I need to work on making the creatures more unique to something never seen before, make the romance between the two main characters stronger, and bring more dialogue into the story. I basically have a lot of work to do on this before I even think about sending it on submissions.

Advice to Writers: Gustave Flaubery

The Artist Must Raise Everything to a Higher Level

The artist must raise everything to a higher level: he is like a pump; inside him is a great pipe reaching down into the bowels of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was pooled beneath the surface and brings it forth into the sunlight in giant sprays.

-GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

This is very good advice. A person must challenge themselves with writing. Write genres you are not familiar with along with the genres you are familiar with. Write something new that is completely away from the ordinary things a person you read. To survive in this business, you have to do completely different things as possible.