Hello all, I'm looking for help with some particular techniques and I've signed up here because your forum offers the best range, depth and ease-of-joininess. I've been successful as a commercial writer all my life (doing everything from press ads to equity proposals) and have taken a break to write 3 novels. They are new-weird YA fantasy stories. It has been odd adjusting to how long novels are, but I'm learning to focus on characters for long enough for a reader to 'get' them, and to describe backgrounds rather than leaving them blank. I feel it's going well and having been going for 2 years, I have a first draft, a second draft, and a half-finished first draft in the works. I'll be happy to help out with beta-reading or proof-reading if people need that. Thanks for reading and for making this forum I've already found it really useful
That sounds really cool. I love weird fiction, with a preference for the classic, but new weird is cool too. Welcome to this weird place, I think you'll fit right in.
I'm sure I don't need to remind you that Salman Rushdie also started out as a copywriter...although I don't think he was aiming for the YA market in any of his novels. Good luck with everything.
