{"id":73,"date":"2023-07-21T17:05:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T00:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2023-07-27T10:59:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T17:59:19","slug":"editors-top-three-premises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/editors-top-three-premises\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor’s top 3 premises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The editor<\/a> I hired on Reedsy choose the following 3 as the most promising of the 10 middle-grade novel premises I shared with him:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Premise #6: Four Square<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Premise #9: Parental Abduction<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Premise #10: The Sad But 100% Completely True Tale of Lester, Court Jester, as told by his Faithful Cousin Sir Aliyah, Knight Errant<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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In our follow-up Zoom session, he ranked them in that order. Here are his notes for each one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Premise #6: Four Square<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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I like this one more. Written properly, it could have a Roald Dahl-esque quality, which I don\u2019t think is done often enough. Give it a legit plot but with just enough absurdity, and it could work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Premise #9: Parental Abduction<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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This idea is still pretty thin at the moment, but I\u2019d say this has some promise if you could pull of a sort of Sean of the Dead thing, with serious plot backed by this ridiculously humorous side story going on.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Premise #10: The Sad But 100% Completely True Tale of Lester, Court Jester, as told by his Faithful Cousin Sir Aliyah, Knight Errant<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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I like the gist of this idea, a junior Don Quixote dragged into a portal fantasy. Has a lot of potential, although like the idea above, still pretty thin at the moment with a lot of major story elements to develop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In the Zoom session, we brainstormed ideas to flesh out the story for Four Square<\/em> and Parental Abduction<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afterwards, as I mulled over his notes and our conversation, I found myself gravitating towards Four Square<\/em> and Sir Aliyah<\/em>. Since then, I’ve spent a few weeks outlining both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most recently, though. I’ve decided to draft Sir Aliyah first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since I made that decision a month or so ago, I’ve forgotten exactly why I made it. Maybe it was simply from the gut. Maybe Sir Aliyah<\/em> just felt more fun to me at the time. Or funnier. But here I am, committed to Sir Aliyah<\/em> for the time being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, as I’ve outlined, the story has changed significantly. Foremost, I’ve made Aliyah the protagonist and Lester, her sidekick \u2014 and the narrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More details to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The editor I hired on Reedsy choose the following 3 as the most promising of the 10 middle-grade novel premises I shared with him: Premise #6: Four Square Premise #9: Parental Abduction Premise #10: The Sad But 100% Completely True Tale of Lester, Court Jester, as told by his Faithful Cousin Sir Aliyah, Knight Errant … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanmiller.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}