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- February 21st, 2011, 3:54 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query - Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5331
Re: Query - Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden
Thank you all for your comments! Here is the revised query based on what you said and as you can tell, it's quite different from the original. If you would like me to look at your query in return, I'd be glad to (especially if you write YA!). Just give me the link or send it through a private messag...
- February 16th, 2011, 1:23 am
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query - Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5331
Re: Query - Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden
Gentlemen only, ladies forbidden? Beatrice Roland won’t take that kind of crap, especially from that chauvinistic boy, Leighton Ross, who believes she should step off the golf course for good and put on a bikini instead. Like the opening! Good voice. I'd probably tighten and take out the words &quo...
- February 16th, 2011, 1:21 am
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query - Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5331
Re: Query - Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden
It seems disorganized. It looks like you might have a good story in here, but it seems to jump around. Try to make it consistent and flow. At times I think this is a legitimate story of women overcoming sexism and exclusion, and at times it reads like kids slinging insults on the playground. I real...
- February 14th, 2011, 8:56 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query - Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5331
Query - Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden
REVISED QUERY ON POST NINE. THANK YOU. Hello there! Thank you for taking a look at my query. Any suggestions/revisions/edits you can make will be appreciated. Be as honest as you can. Also, if you were a literary agent, would you ask to read more or give a form rejection? Thank you, here it is: Dea...
- January 4th, 2011, 4:06 am
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: DARK, DARK LUCK, a YA urban Fantasy
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4714
Re: DARK, DARK LUCK, a YA urban Fantasy
Dear agent, Cash Flaherty is fed up with his small Texas town and the office-bound future that’s mapped out for him. To break away, the seventeen-year-old books summer school in Ireland. It pisses off his workaholic dad, Not exactly sure how it can piss off his workaholic dad? Is it money problems?...
- December 23rd, 2010, 3:12 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Why we love bad writing
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10389
Re: Why we love bad writing
To those that have replied to me: Ah, well. We all have different opinions of "good writing". Some of us prefer a story well executed, and others prefer a simple writing style. I personally prefer to read a story with not just good characters or good plot, but also with a wonderful writing...
- December 22nd, 2010, 2:48 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Why we love bad writing
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10389
Re: Why we love bad writing
Wow. Well, I suppose I agree with this. Humanity is acquiring more indolence every generation. My classmates despise literary merit books, and they hate analyzing the skillfully woven symbolism, metaphors, and social commentary along with them. They prefer reads in simplistic, straightforward langua...
- December 22nd, 2010, 2:42 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Impatience.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3207
Re: Impatience.
I do have impatience. I am impatient to finish my novel, yet I am being horribly counterproductive and not writing anything. It's all my fault, really. I have all the time in the world. I suppose you could say I am calm, and not quite too eager. Anyways, I would agree with your spouse. It's best to ...
- June 3rd, 2010, 4:25 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: One Liners
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7581
Re: One Liners
My only suggestion would be to try and make it shorter, ideally fewer than 15 words. You could do this by taking out the "named Sarah" and rolling "kidnapping, murders, rape, and the occasional free drug hand out " down to one or two words that pretty much wraps up all that (not ...
- January 14th, 2010, 9:56 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: How to Write a Perfect(ly) Dreadful Query Letter
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3249
Re: How to Write a Perfect(ly) Dreadful Query Letter
Infomative and hilariously funny at the same time!
Love it!
Love it!
- December 31st, 2009, 2:33 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: How many of you belong to non-web critique groups?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7706
Re: How many of you belong to non-web critique groups?
Hmm... I'm in a creative writing club. I don't know if I'd call it a critique group, because after someone reads their stuff, we usually clap and the leader of our group usually says something like, "That was awesome." We don't really critique, I think it's because we're too nice. I'm real...
- December 31st, 2009, 2:30 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: A shallow book - what to do?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6959
Re: A shallow book - what to do?
I agree with Mira, put down the book and get to working with the next one. A few weeks after Nanowrimo, I began to reread my book. It gave me a headache. I didn't want to read it anymore. I was very discouraged at these feelings. So, I stored it safely away in my USB drive thinga-ma-bobber (always a...
- December 31st, 2009, 2:23 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: How do you write?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6904
Re: How do you write?
I tried that technique once - the one where you don't write in order. Did not work. I like to write in sequence because as I'm writing, I want it to be like I'm growing up with my characters, you know? Living their lives with them. (Not that I'm saying I've created a Mary Sue). When writing in order...
- December 26th, 2009, 3:53 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 528
- Views: 314048
Re: What are you reading now?
I'm reading Crime and Punishment.
The other book I was supposed to be reading bored me, I even forgot the title so I can't post it here.
The other book I was supposed to be reading bored me, I even forgot the title so I can't post it here.
- December 26th, 2009, 3:48 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Sam said vs. said Sam
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4778
Re: Sam said vs. said Sam
I was having the same issues. At first I thought it HAD to be said Sam. Once I thought that, I turned all the dialogue things in my novel into said Sam, though not particularly with the name Sam. Then, I read more books and realize it doesn't matter. That made me feel better, but then I got angry be...