My full Query Me This submission is now up at The Public Query Slushpile, along with nine others. I haven’t had a chance to read through all of them yet, but it looks like there’s some good stuff.
I wrote the entire submission, query and pages, on my iPad, as a sort of experiment. I [...]
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I’m sending more queries this week. I still have one full manuscript out from my last round of submissions, but that is no reason not to keep the ball rolling.
In the past, I’ve collected a few names of agents I was really excited about, and queried them. Then, when it’s time for me [...]
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So, today I’m launching a new “feature” on this blog: Wednesday Liveblogging. Every Wednesday, come Hell or high water (but possibly not Boot Camp) I will spend a full eight hours liveblogging. Hopefully it will give me a lot of accountability, without having quite the paralyzing effect that trying to write a [...]
Last night my writing group met. Along with the latest sections from Newshound’s and Poetess’ novels, we discussed my recent story.
I wound up getting a lot of praise for this story, which surprised me, because I still thought it was kinda marshy and weak in the middle. People loved [...]
Ok, whew. I’m back to liveblogging, and rather sorry for punking out on it last week. One of the plusses, and minuses, of a writing group is that it’s like writing with someone looking over your shoulder. That provides a lot of accountability, which is great, but it also provides a lot of pressure, and [...]
I am going to finish this story if it kills me.
Harold’s story has been a very difficult one for me to write. Dude is seriously the hardest protagonist I’ve ever worked with. Here are a few of the reasons:
Harold is male, elderly, and severely handicapped. I cannot claim a lot of experience with any of [...]
Last night I was searching for my iPad. “I think it’s downstairs,” Mark said.
“I was just wondering whether I had any email. Perhaps from a Mr. Card?”
“Mr. Card?”
“Comma Orson Scott.”
I knew the deadline for acceptances to Literary Boot Camp was fast approaching, and I was getting a little antsy. But when I opened [...]
Three days before my deadline. Time to get this story done.
What I’ve got: Ten and a half pages, about half of which are up to my standards
What I need: About ten more pages, plus a good deal of polish
3:11 PM: Sitting here at Borders, ready to get started.
3:12 PM: Got my Strawberry Fruitkula. Now ready [...]
This week I got a late birthday present, in the form of the latest from that purveyor of excellence, Apple. That’s right, folks, I am the proud owner of the first iPad on my block.
I have to say, I wasn’t prepared to love it as much as I do. It is, in a [...]