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You're welcome!
I PM'd you. I'll try to get it back to you within 24 hours, probably a lot less.
Ick. Surely they're going to run afoul of the county/city/whomever at some point. I really hate lifeless cookie-cutter architecture, whether it's McMansions or identical townhouses or soulless apartment buildings. It just gets to me in a really deep way--how dare they remove the human element from the home?
If you want anyone else to look at those 5 pages, I certainly can do that. I dip into YA sometimes, though it isn't my #1 genre (for reading--I write adult fiction).
Happy Tuesday! Everyone got your taxes filed?
re: QT - I'm with Antonin on this one. I don't think I ended up querying any that weren't on QT b/c it made me nervous -- like, why wouldn't they want to be? (Although if you have a Publishers Marketplace subscription and can look them up there and see for sure that they've had recent deals, that would for sure trump QT). I do wonder where they get their genre info sometimes, though, b/c I've seen plenty of times where the QT genres don't match up with the genres on their websites.
Antonin - Totally looking forward to that labyrinth party.
Maxtina - Congrats on the partial!
As for me, wrote a bunch last night and now I'm sitting around waiting for the arborist to show up to take care of the top twenty feet or so of a pine tree that's barely hanging from the tree by an inch or so of bark.
re: QT - I'm with Antonin on this one. I don't think I ended up querying any that weren't on QT b/c it made me nervous -- like, why wouldn't they want to be? (Although if you have a Publishers Marketplace subscription and can look them up there and see for sure that they've had recent deals, that would for sure trump QT). I do wonder where they get their genre info sometimes, though, b/c I've seen plenty of times where the QT genres don't match up with the genres on their websites.
Antonin - Totally looking forward to that labyrinth party.
Maxtina - Congrats on the partial!
As for me, wrote a bunch last night and now I'm sitting around waiting for the arborist to show up to take care of the top twenty feet or so of a pine tree that's barely hanging from the tree by an inch or so of bark.
So much kindness on this forum...
angeliz2k - Thanks you, I just PMed you.
WendyN - Thank you. If I remember correctly it makes it 2 Partial requests, 2 personal rejections, 3 formal rejections so far.
angeliz2k - Thanks you, I just PMed you.
WendyN - Thank you. If I remember correctly it makes it 2 Partial requests, 2 personal rejections, 3 formal rejections so far.
I don't know what's going on, agents seem to be very slow at responding these past couple of weeks :/
You know, you're lucky if you get any decent agent, I know ...
But there are always a few of them that you just really really want to work with lol
But there are always a few of them that you just really really want to work with lol
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Hey everyone. I have nothing to report. Assistant agent is still going over my rewrites. It's been four weeks, sigh. I'm anxious to start submitting to publishers! Plotting for Book 3 is dragging and dragging. It may be time to take a different angle. I'm thinking of making my male MC really anguished over something, so that he has to fight his way back from the depths of despair during the book. The heroine could help, hehehe.
I have no idea what the anguish comes from, though. Time to go sit in the corner and mull this over.
I have no idea what the anguish comes from, though. Time to go sit in the corner and mull this over.
Those ones are always the hardest rejecitons. From
Luckily I have the sense to never show that.
Ugh. Massive revision request for a non-fic science article. And I do mean massive. Not a rejection, but it sure seems like it.
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Right now I have a cold and since you mentioned the heroine helping in that way... all I can think up of are dirty jokes.
*sits in corner*
(It looks like a dunce hat to me)
Antonin - I KNOOOOW! XD
triceretops - Oh... are you gonna revise?
ChocolateChipCookie - I miss planning for my novel, but it was a good time. I have the whole plot line for the four books with all the details. I didn't actually 'plan' most of the things, they just sort of happened lol But the parts I did sit down and plan for were really fun So good luck.
triceretops - Oh... are you gonna revise?
ChocolateChipCookie - I miss planning for my novel, but it was a good time. I have the whole plot line for the four books with all the details. I didn't actually 'plan' most of the things, they just sort of happened lol But the parts I did sit down and plan for were really fun
So good luck.
And Antonin and RaggedEdge thanks for the first chapter review again. Hopefully I can make the first five pages as good as I can today.
WHY IS THE BEGINNING ALWAYS SO HARD? I mean, you know how everything starts, but you also want it to be interesting enough to get an agent >_<
WHY IS THE BEGINNING ALWAYS SO HARD? I mean, you know how everything starts, but you also want it to be interesting enough to get an agent >_<
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Maxtina--I really have no choice in the matter because I love this company and they pay way over average per article. I'm part of a science six-book series, so I'll have to try and knock this out of the park. They even offered much more money to make the changes.
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With my requests, I'm constantly stuck between desperately wanting to nudge in order to know, and never wanting to nudge because I prefer hope to outright rejection. Anyone else feel the same?
I don't have any requests, but I really want everyone to hurry up and reject me so that I can get on with...whatever it is I'm doing, lol
I don't have any requests, but I really want everyone to hurry up and reject me so that I can get on with...whatever it is I'm doing, lol
(though I've been thinking the same thing for myself)
I like my "eternal maybe." Having an agent just HAVE my work boosts my self esteem.
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Nudging sometimes works and sometimes provokes a fast NO. No idea which way to go on this.
As for the plotting of my novel, it's a slow slog. I love writing openings, so there is that. If only writing the first chapter could make me a career.
As for the plotting of my novel, it's a slow slog. I love writing openings, so there is that. If only writing the first chapter could make me a career.
What y'all are talking about is still a dream to me.
BUT, I've had some great afternoons of editing since my kids' afterschool winter extracurriculars ended, and this latest revision is about complete.
Also, I finally wrote the synopsis today. It's five pages - good enough for some agents! - but I can try to whittle it down for those pesky agents who ask for two-page synopses. I can't see how I'll ever make it one page, though.
It was easier to write now that I've made the main structural change the ms needed.
Maxtina - You're welcome!
BUT, I've had some great afternoons of editing since my kids' afterschool winter extracurriculars ended, and this latest revision is about complete.
Also, I finally wrote the synopsis today. It's five pages - good enough for some agents! - but I can try to whittle it down for those pesky agents who ask for two-page synopses. I can't see how I'll ever make it one page, though.
It was easier to write now that I've made the main structural change the ms needed.Maxtina - You're welcome!
Hey everyone. I hope you're all well. Sorry I vanished... Something about all the critiques and beta-readings and rejections...I just needed a break from this whole world for a while. I also met a guy--first serious boyfriend potential since leaving my ex, and that somehow gave me writer's block.
I'll try to finish everyone's beta reading when I can, but it will probably be a while more as I'm leaving the state on a new adventure next week. Heading for Colorado to meet one of my long-time best Internet friends. I feel like taking a break from writing was the best thing for me right now, I've spent a long time isolated from the world because I was so devoted to my work. I needed this extra time with family, friends, new-romance potentials...
I'll try and go back and catch up on the thread when I can. I hope you're all excellent!!
I'll try to finish everyone's beta reading when I can, but it will probably be a while more as I'm leaving the state on a new adventure next week. Heading for Colorado to meet one of my long-time best Internet friends.
I feel like taking a break from writing was the best thing for me right now, I've spent a long time isolated from the world because I was so devoted to my work. I needed this extra time with family, friends, new-romance potentials... I'll try and go back and catch up on the thread when I can. I hope you're all excellent!!
Also, I finally wrote the synopsis today. It's five pages - good enough for some agents! - but I can try to whittle it down for those pesky agents who ask for two-page synopses. I can't see how I'll ever make it one page, though.
You do know that one-page synopses are single-spaced, right? Just checking
Finally heard on a partial I sent out 17 months ago on the NF. I'd nudged a number of times and just gave up. She tells me she isn't the right agent for the project and has decided to focus primarily on fiction. For this I waited so long? Still, nice that she responded. I have some requests from the first version of NF that have been outstanding for years...
I'm happy for you, andi! I don't know that I'm excellent yet. But in the immortal words of Monty Python, "I'm not dead... I'm getting better."
I'm still waiting for my writer's brain to kick in again. I've been trying to think about what to do about existing work and WIP, but so far my reaction is always "meh" and I find something else to do.
That's kind of how I feel. As long I have something "out there", there's hope. I know in my bones that the rejection is coming (after all, it has always ended in rejection up to this point), but until then there's still a chance.
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