Yes, it's certainly intense. I'm learning new things all the time. The one thing I learned recently that dismayed me, was that my style of writing is no longer 'in fashion' with publishers. I'm gutted! I have to un-learn stuff and learn new stuff.
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No long in fashion? What style is that? Does that have to do with your POV?
My editor helps me a lot with my POV. My trouble is that while I'm subjective omniscient, I sometimes fall into the hive mind syndrome. So she helped me with that and to look out for those more obvious hive mind turn of phrases in future installments. I hadn't realised how much of it was in there until she pointed it out to me.
Yes, it's the POV that I wrote most of my stories in - omnipresent.
I'm also realising I have a LOT to learn :)
Same here. I'm really thankful to my editor who did a bit of coaching at the same time. Sometimes I write in the 3rd person, one character POV per scene. That's actually easier than omniscient. But some stories work better with omniscient, so the only way is to improve our skill and keep on writing ;)
The editor I'm working with now is excellent. She caters the lessons around my knowledge and though I'm stuck on a few things, we do appear to be making progress.
Cool ;) Yeah, I get stuck on a few things too. I think those few things make us unique and differentiate us from other writers. Some things are just our signature, and for other things, we adapt.
Yes adapt and move forward :)