{"id":2371258,"date":"2015-08-12T14:57:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T19:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/?p=2371258"},"modified":"2022-11-15T19:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T01:00:15","slug":"so-your-novel-isnt-perfect-yet-submit-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/blog\/so-your-novel-isnt-perfect-yet-submit-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"So your novel isn&#8217;t perfect yet. Submit anyway."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kyle de Waal, Guest Contributor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The deadline to enter our annual <a href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/events\/young-writers-novel-contest\/\">Student Novel Contest<\/a> is August 15, 2015\u2014in 3 days! If you&#8217;ve been holding back, afraid to submit your novel, Kyle, a longtime student with The One Year Adventure Novel, challenges you to think about the contest in a different way:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2372740 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/oyan-blog-submit-anyway-pinterest-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"oyan-blog-submit-anyway-pinterest\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/oyan-blog-submit-anyway-pinterest-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/oyan-blog-submit-anyway-pinterest-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/oyan-blog-submit-anyway-pinterest-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Monday night, some friends and I, went to see The Classic Crime, because they&#8217;re awesome (one of my favorite bands) and they were in Kansas!<\/p>\n<p>It was fun.<\/p>\n<p>But as we know to expect\u00a0with medium-sized bands, they <strong>rounded up some local acts<\/strong> to open the show for them. <strong>You probably can imagine the type.<\/strong> One band had formed something like a month before; another screamed &#8220;We practice in our mom&#8217;s garage!&#8221; with everything they did. (I didn&#8217;t catch most of their lyrics because they seemed more interested in guitars than vocals, so perhaps they were literally screaming that. I&#8217;ll never know.)<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0local acts\u00a0got better as the show went along, but it became increasingly obvious to everyone\u2014audience and bands alike\u2014that <strong>we were all\u00a0there for the same reason<\/strong>. The Classic Crime was playing. The bands repeatedly admitted that everyone was there for that, and they didn&#8217;t seem too bothered about it\u00a0either.<\/p>\n<p>The screaming guitars really made an impression\u2014obviously\u2014but <strong>what really struck me was how much fun everyone seemed to be having<\/strong>. Sure, they were missing notes from time to time, and several of the singers didn&#8217;t seem quite aware of what their voices could and couldn&#8217;t do, but they were having fun.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;d formed a month ago, and they were OPENING FOR THE CLASSIC CRIME. Of course they were having fun. They got to go on stage with real musicians and perform. Of COURSE that&#8217;s fun!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did they look terrified? Yes. But did they look like they were having a blast? Also yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And of course they looked extremely amateurish compared to a band that has been together for over a decade, because that&#8217;s just how music goes.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I saw The Classic Crime live it was at an all-day music festival. Ten bands, one day, ending with The Classic Crime. And what struck me then struck me last night too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It takes time to get good.<\/strong> It really does. I have yet to be blown away by a band that comes on stage and admits that they formed a month before. The longer a band has been playing together, the better they get.<\/p>\n<p>It takes practice. There&#8217;s no doubting that. <strong>Any art form you want to master will demand time and deliberate practice.<\/strong> You have to push yourself, stretch yourself. It takes work.<\/p>\n<p>But you know what? <strong>Just because it takes practice doesn&#8217;t mean that you can&#8217;t have fun until you have mastered it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you can <strong>perform before you&#8217;re perfect<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you can <strong>have fun<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as a community of writers, our performances tend to <strong>look a little less dramatic<\/strong> than going on stage and gyrating with a guitar (hallelujah!). As a writer, you need significantly less stage-make up.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s no less fun. Our performances look like posting chapters on the forum, or clicking &#8220;Send&#8221; after attaching our writing in a message to a friend. <strong>Our performances\u00a0look like <em>submitting<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Submitting<\/em> is one of those words that carry a ton of weight in writing communities. Because, chances are, we&#8217;ve felt that <strong>pressure<\/strong> before. Whether it was emailing an agent or publisher, or even just entering a contest, you suddenly have <strong>that moment of, &#8220;I can&#8217;t fix this any further,&#8221;<\/strong> and you feel like a large bag of tears.<\/p>\n<p>I have been there. You probably have too.<\/p>\n<p>And with the contest coming up in a few days, I want to suggest that <strong>if you&#8217;re going to submit, have fun while you do it<\/strong>. <strong>And if you&#8217;re on the edge about submitting, do it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It may not be perfect yet. You might screw up the drums a little, and <strong>maybe it will show that this is your first effort<\/strong>. <strong>Maybe your book needs a little more editing than you have time to give it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s okay.<\/strong> Have fun anyway.<\/p>\n<p>You have permission from your audience to rock imperfectly for a while.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If there isn&#8217;t any fun in it, why do it?<\/strong> There are lots of other meaningful things you can do with your life. If you&#8217;re not going to let go and have a blast with it from time to time, isn&#8217;t\u00a0that a little bleak?<\/p>\n<p>So submit.<\/p>\n<p>It can be fun. You can <strong>choose for it to be fun<\/strong>. (There&#8217;s even a cash prize now? I guess? Cash prizes sound like fun to me.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>So go out there and rock and have a blast and maybe you won&#8217;t be perfect. But that&#8217;s okay.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Just get back to practice once it&#8217;s over.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/events\/young-writers-novel-contest\/\">Read about the Student Novel Contest \u00bb<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Those of you who are on the OYAN student forum, can find his contest-winning novel, <em>Project Theta<\/em>, in the 2011 contest showcase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kyle de Waal, Guest Contributor<\/strong><br \/>\nThe deadline to enter our annual Student Novel Contest is August 15, 2015\u2014in 3 days! 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