Hiring an Editor
I hired an editor, Tamara Rittershaus, who told me that my meter was a mess.
What meter did I even want anyway?
My story was a jumbled mix of iambic trimeter, tetrameter, and pentameter. Did I want anapestic?
Ana who?
I had no idea what Tamara was talking about, and, feeling like I didn’t know English as well as I thought I did, I set off to Google and YouTube different types of meter.
After a lot of thinking and reflection, I settled on iambic trimeter. That had the best rhythm and was the simplest for the age range. Also, most of my verses were already in iambic trimeter, so I wanted to keep it easy.
My next two books can expand in length and complexity, but the beauty of this story was its simplicity.
Iambic trimeter felt right.