![]() At first glance, it might seem contradictory. If you’re lucky enough to have more than one person weighing in, search for commonalities in their feedback. Before you begin revising, listen to what the agent is suggesting. My relationship with several clients started this way, and I’m grateful they were able to drop their defenses and let me share my thoughts on their work.Ģ. I know it can be disappointing to receive an offer to revise instead of an offer of representation, but if a writer can shake off that disappointment and welcome the creative feedback, oftentimes an offer of representation will follow. Either way, you’re on the right track if an agent connected with so much of your story that s/he wants to help make it stronger. Think the feedback was overly-critical? Maybe that’s because you’re thinking this is about you and not about your story. Think the agent doesn’t get what you were trying to do? Maybe that’s because it wasn’t clear enough. Hey, we’re talking revision, aren’t we? It only seemed appropriate.įour Five Tips on Revising with Feedback from an Agentġ. Hope you don’t mind my adding a fifth tip to your list. Thanks for asking me to join in the conversation, Skila. ![]() And I’ve asked the spectacular Tina Wexler, Literary Agent at ICM, to chime in with thoughts of her own. If you’re in this boat, I’m offering up four five tips today on what to do next. And one thing that can be particularly difficult is receiving feedback from an agent-revision suggestions-with an offer to resubmit instead of an offer of representation. ![]()
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