What are the stakes? What is the Dilemma?

Miss Snark repeats this over and over. What's the dilemma, what are the stakes, the choices? What goes wrong if she fails in her mission? Start with you main character. Describe her problem, and her dilemma. Be specific. Focus.

So that's what I need to do. Cripes. I must have read a gazillion articles about how to query. And it never sunk in. I could write the most arcane computer programs and lay out delicious digital logic, but I can't write a goddamn query letter. Well, yes I can. I just haven't yet.

So I printed out all the letters that Miss Snark rewarded with "winner" or "bingo" and now to analyze and study and see how I can do the same for World of Mirrors. There is also a need to concentrate on what's unique to the book: setting, characters, and all that good stuff. And come up with a twist on the plot. I must have one. Don't I? Too close to the forest to gawk at the trees.

Suck it up, yet again and forever. Arrrrghhh!

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