Abby Jimenez

You know, how to build tension. Anything you can think of, they have forums for that. And it's a tit-for-tat community where you run your chapters through and people critique it. And then you, in turn, critique their chapters. And in order to get the credits to submit your chapters every week, you have to, you know, do enough critiques to get the points to submit your own.

So it's a very active site. You have to be really involved, you know, helping other people with their stories in order to submit your stuff to get help. And I started submitting this terrible dystopian YA romance. And then like right away, people were like, wow, this is a terrible dystopian YA romance. Yeah. And they were like, but your dialogue is really good. So I decided to trunk that book.

So it's a very active site. You have to be really involved, you know, helping other people with their stories in order to submit your stuff to get help. And I started submitting this terrible dystopian YA romance. And then like right away, people were like, wow, this is a terrible dystopian YA romance. Yeah. And they were like, but your dialogue is really good. So I decided to trunk that book.

So it's a very active site. You have to be really involved, you know, helping other people with their stories in order to submit your stuff to get help. And I started submitting this terrible dystopian YA romance. And then like right away, people were like, wow, this is a terrible dystopian YA romance. Yeah. And they were like, but your dialogue is really good. So I decided to trunk that book.

And I was like, all right, I'm going to lean really heavily on what I know I do well is my dialogue. I'm going to write a contemporary romance. I'm going to switch to first person. I'm going to do dual POVs because I really love dual POVs in a romance. And I started writing the Happy Ever After playlist. And immediately it took off on that site. People were

And I was like, all right, I'm going to lean really heavily on what I know I do well is my dialogue. I'm going to write a contemporary romance. I'm going to switch to first person. I'm going to do dual POVs because I really love dual POVs in a romance. And I started writing the Happy Ever After playlist. And immediately it took off on that site. People were

And I was like, all right, I'm going to lean really heavily on what I know I do well is my dialogue. I'm going to write a contemporary romance. I'm going to switch to first person. I'm going to do dual POVs because I really love dual POVs in a romance. And I started writing the Happy Ever After playlist. And immediately it took off on that site. People were

loving it and I had people from other genres because there's all different cues you know like there's like the thriller right you know group there's the mystery group there's the romance cues I had people outside of my genre reading my book which is a really good sign means that it was like universally liked so

loving it and I had people from other genres because there's all different cues you know like there's like the thriller right you know group there's the mystery group there's the romance cues I had people outside of my genre reading my book which is a really good sign means that it was like universally liked so

loving it and I had people from other genres because there's all different cues you know like there's like the thriller right you know group there's the mystery group there's the romance cues I had people outside of my genre reading my book which is a really good sign means that it was like universally liked so

I got really encouraged at the reception I was getting and I decided to query that book to a literary agent and got an immediate reply. I was so excited. She loved it, asked me for the full manuscript, which was not done. I had five more chapters that were very roughly written but had not been edited and I was like, can I have until tomorrow?

I got really encouraged at the reception I was getting and I decided to query that book to a literary agent and got an immediate reply. I was so excited. She loved it, asked me for the full manuscript, which was not done. I had five more chapters that were very roughly written but had not been edited and I was like, can I have until tomorrow?

I got really encouraged at the reception I was getting and I decided to query that book to a literary agent and got an immediate reply. I was so excited. She loved it, asked me for the full manuscript, which was not done. I had five more chapters that were very roughly written but had not been edited and I was like, can I have until tomorrow?

So you finished it the next day?

So you finished it the next day?

So you finished it the next day?

I stayed up all night and edited the final chapters as best I could and sent them to her and uh, by the next day I ended up getting, I had an agent.

I stayed up all night and edited the final chapters as best I could and sent them to her and uh, by the next day I ended up getting, I had an agent.

I stayed up all night and edited the final chapters as best I could and sent them to her and uh, by the next day I ended up getting, I had an agent.

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