Ode to a query letter
Oh, query letter, I detest thee My artful words now commercial pitch Reductio ad nauseum Beautiful purebred distilled to bitch Yet my pockets are light,… Read More »Ode to a query letter
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Oh, query letter, I detest thee My artful words now commercial pitch Reductio ad nauseum Beautiful purebred distilled to bitch Yet my pockets are light,… Read More »Ode to a query letter
While it may seem like my ambition died sometime in April, never to prompt me to publish on the Internet again, I’m back! Here’s a… Read More »Yes, I’m still alive
For five weeks the first novel manuscript gathered dust in my bedroom side table. Enough time passed that I actually began to dread picking it… Read More »Oh my gosh, does THAT suck!
On the day we headed to Denver last weekend for my daughter’s volleyball tournament, the minor cold I’d been fighting for 4 weeks morphed into… Read More »Laid up and wondering
As indicated in my About page, my job carries with it a small amount of visibility. Really small, but enough that I’d prefer to write… Read More »A Nom de Plume: by any other name
On my desk is a 310 page manuscript, spiral bound with a clear front cover and navy back, printed two-sided with wide spacing (but not… Read More »Putting it in writing, hard copy that is
In my last post, I lamented that boredom with the first draft editing task led me to break the job into smaller chunks. I concluded… Read More »The hurdles were the scenes themselves
Yesterday I had a few extra hours to myself. The wife and kiddo had volleyball-related team bonding duties that I was free to skip. My… Read More »Pace myself
According to all the advice online (yes, all of it), I’m doing this wrong. Author after author says to focus on getting the story out,… Read More »And so it begins: edit numero uno
Sixty days ago (plus a couple more), I made a commitment to write a novel. I did so because I’d long enjoyed writing but had… Read More »Big day!