I'm off to NYC for Edgar's week, hopefully to schmooze with agents and editors who might develop a sudden interest in my books. As a basically nerdy computer type, the angst that accompanies me on such endeavors is like one of those suitcases you see circling on the carousel that is so big you wonder if the person it belongs to had anything left in the house after packing. My unease is about the size of that suitcase. So, as we are wont to say on this blog, suck it up.
The new new new new opening pages of Promiscuous Mode are just about there. Maybe this will be The One. My editor pointed out that I use "just" just about every other word. I'll just have to get rid of all those "justs." Most I delete, some I change to "only", and I leave a few in the dialog that sound just right. Ooops!
Another reject, this one of the Best Query Letter Ever Written. Merde and merde again. "Please forgive this impersonal note.. blah blah blah."
Time for some quick mirror talk to convince myself I'm the best and the brightest.
Aloha
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Monday, April 25, 2005
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Well, you can't possibly the best and the brightest, because I am! I've been in your boat about a gazillion times--world's best query writer that I am.
ReplyDeleteYou popped in at my crab blog, and I finally saw your comment and looked you up. That blog is, basically, a dummy--a copy of another under an assumed name, because I don't want folks poking around my good writing (it's all about them!). But come visit me over there--A Doggy's Life.
I love reading about your novel research. My main character is a belly dancer, and I took a lesson over the winter. It's a lot easier to learn about that, probably. :)
Ta!