I received an e-mail from my editor today that's very encouraging news. She said she's been going through my manuscript and has done extensive work. Her workflow is: she'll email me one new chapter a day for me to work on. This way I won't be overwhelmed.
I like that she said she believes in the project. Her major critique for the first chapter, though, is that it is weak and does not serve the purposes of what a first chapter should do for a good novel.
And so, I am going to raid through my novels tonight and read all first chapters--just the first chapters--to see what is missing in my work. I am stoked for this!
