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So I went back and looked through #pwteasers because I was trying not to look at them when #PitchWars was actually happening and I'm like... 50% sure I saw someone mention my book. So that's fun.
and after exchanging long texts about the picks... we decided on one #PWTeasers
Enough rambling, but I hope this has shown why no requests REALLY REALLY does not mean your submission was bad. I'm not saying any of this just to make you feel better.
IT'S ME, NOT YOU.
And thank you once again for the honour of reading your words.
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In the end I was able to request 32, which still meant reading more than one manuscript per day for the entire period. I wrote up feedback as I went - over 30k of it - which also took time.
Time is finite. Physically impossible to read everything I wanted to.
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...I also thought I'd be able to help - to be a good mentor for. Again, this was nothing to do with the quality of writing or the marketability of the stories. It was me, not you.
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So, I wanted to req 62. It took me almost a week to get through reading submissions, leaving me four weeks to read requests.
Physically impossible to read 62. I had to trim down the list to the ones that were not only well-written and appealed to me, but...
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FWIW I also wouldn't (and haven't) bought many massive bestsellers. I don't rate Stephen King. I don't like Dickens novels. I've tried to read the Hobbit like 10 times and never get past the first chapter.
My taste does not correlate with quality/marketability.
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The remaining 145 I marked as 'Not for me'. That meant the writing was absolutely fine, but the story wasn't my kind of thing. If I picked that story up in a bookshop (and one day I will see many of them there) I wouldn't buy it.
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That means that the majority of you are, in my opinion, writing at a publishable - or almost-publishable - level.
You start to see why mentors couldn't request every good submission, right?
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As I'm being totally honest here, I'll confess there were 66 that I marked as 'Not ready'. This meant the writing wasn't at a stage where I, personally, thought I could mentor it to agent-ready within three months.
Just 66. Out of 273.
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That's about 13 full-length novels. It took me a good week to read all of these.
I was VERY STRICT with myself, only marking the ones that were not only well-written but also appealed to my personal tastes.
I ended up with 62 'Want To Request's.
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Now I can share some numbers and explain why no request does NOT mean there was something wrong with your writing or your story.
First, I got 273 submissions. These average around 4,000 words.
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And that's #PWTeasers DONE! You can now guess which one was yours if you like.
I enjoyed reading every single one and I wish I could have requested them all.
#PWTeasers 272: It's incredibly fitting that my last teaser of 2021 includes a comp to JURASSIC PARK.
You all get me and I love you for it.
Now I've sem-fixed the numbering, we're back to #PWTeasers 271: A scifi including the power of AI to keep a loved one alive beyond death. I want an AI of my nan to say things like "It's 8pm, shouldn't you be in bed?" or "Look, Anna, there's a plane!" even though I'm 32
#PWTeasers 253: This MC may be three people (in a trench coat?)
#PWTeasers 253: Ooh boy, this MC gets two very hard pieces of news in the very first chapter.
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