So, earlier this week I talked about tanking my first scene. I’ve spent the intervening days making necessary tweaks to chapters 1-5 to account for this lack of first scene-age, but there’s still one remaining problem.
The first sentence of Scene 2 is now the first sentence of the book. And while it’s a perfectly serviceable [...]
Liveblogging Wednesday has been permanently relocated to Thursday, on account of my Game Night being permanently relocated to Wednesday. Now, what am I going to cook?
I’m thinking today of Sons of the Wolf, a wonderful Gothic suspense by Barbara Michaels (AKA Elizabeth Peters) that I read years and years ago. I remember this one scene where the protagonist was locked in a tower, and outside her room was a large, muscular, violent dog. She needed to get out to help [...]
Ok, sorry for punking out on the whole Liveblogging Wednesday thing yesterday. I had a lot of stuff going on, and people coming over in the evening. Suffice it to say, I dropped the ball.
That’s ok, because today we have the new, better, extra special Liveblogging Thursday. Today I’m going to be working on the [...]
With my friend Becky, about six months ago. My summation: “I dunno. I think if I couldn’t get published traditionally, I’d have to take a good, hard look at my work.”
With my writing group, Wednesday night. My summation: “I think it’s a path to publication that is opening up for some people, like bloggers and [...]
3:50 PM: And we have a very late start to Liveblogging Wednesday this week. Sorry about that.
Today I plan to start on a new book. Not the sequel to my current book, but a whole new project, something Mark and I dreamed up during our what-would-you-do-if-you-had-to conversation last week. I’m still mostly interested in a [...]
Queries are out. Or some of them, at least. It is always hard for me to let each one go. While I was going through this process, the agent with my full wrote back. She doesn’t want me.
Remember when I got into Boot Camp and I said, “Can I just say, this feels enormously validating?” [...]
I did finish that query letter last night, but for some reason it didn’t publish. So, here it is:
I am seeking representation for my jazz age mystery novel, The Big Life (75,000 words). It is a spin on the classic hard-boiled detective story—from the secretary’s point of view.
In 1928, Kitty Carmichael arrives in Chicago determined [...]
It’s time for another Liveblogging Wednesday. I’m having a hard time deciding what to liveblog today. I could work on revisions to my query letter. Or I could work on the initial pages for the sequel to my novel.
But what I really, really want to write is a pan of Sex and the City 2.
So [...]