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- October 15th, 2010, 3:47 pm
- Forum: Ask Nathan
- Topic: Won a writing contest--include in query?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1567
Won a writing contest--include in query?
Thanks so much for hosting this Ask Nathan thread. With the massive amount of conflicting advice on the net, it's so helpful to have answers straight from you. My question actually has to do with conflicting advice (and not wanting to dish out more of it myself). A writer friend of mine placed 23rd ...
- May 20th, 2010, 6:46 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query: GHOSTS VS ALIENS
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8698
Re: Query: GHOSTS VS ALIENS
Howdy Kirril! Gotta say, I think this query was pretty tight already. Just a few toughts: Title: Well, with a movie called "Monsters Vs. Aliens" that recently came out and "Alien Vs. Predator" not too long ago...bluntly, I think you can do better, sir. :) Hi all! I've contributed...
- May 15th, 2010, 2:55 am
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: The Super Incredible Pre-Agent Tester!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10599
Re: The Super Incredible Pre-Agent Tester!
Dear Specific Agent, Nineteen-year-old Adam tried to kill himself. His biggest regret is that his five-year-old sister, Evelyn, found him bleeding on the floor. Every night, he tucks her into bed and hopes to find a way to make it up to her. But one day, Adam meets seventeen-year-old Cherith, and h...
- April 27th, 2010, 10:45 am
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: Kick-Thyself Moments
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11835
Re: Kick-Thyself Moments
Whew, glad it wasn't just me. :) Here's one from the vault: back when I first discovered what a query was, I made a few drafts of them on email. Terrible. Drafts. Anyway, I was working on one and went to click "save draft" but accidentally clicked "send" instead. This wouldn't ha...
- April 26th, 2010, 6:06 pm
- Forum: Finding An Agent
- Topic: Kick-Thyself Moments
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11835
Kick-Thyself Moments
I often find myself ranting and kicking things (sometimes myself, depending on how creative I can get) after I perform a spectacular query blunder. Just wondering if anyone else feels the same, and wants to rant/share. It is lovely to rant, sometimes. Here's my latest: So I write my queries on a wor...
- April 22nd, 2010, 9:17 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query: VALENTINE, New Revision & stuff
- Replies: 33
- Views: 11878
Re: Query: VALENTINE
Hey rainbowsheeps! Thanks so much for your help with my query. I come to return the favor (though I doubt I'll be nearly as helpful, but I can give you an honest opinion as a reader who would be either picking up your book or putting it down in a bookstore). Again, any new comments, criticisms or s...
- April 21st, 2010, 5:51 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: QUERY - THE NAMELESS
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4812
Re: QUERY - THE NAMELESS
Below is the query for my YA fantasy novel. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, be honest, be brutal! Will do. :) Dear Agent: Eighteen-year-old Erica Ann Dawson falls asleep in her bed in Batesfield, Connecticut and awakens to find herself driving down a four-lane highway. Great hook! Plague...
- April 20th, 2010, 12:28 am
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Maybe 3rd time is the charm..I WOULD HAVE LOVED YOU ANYWAY
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4572
Re: Maybe 3rd time is the charm..I WOULD HAVE LOVED YOU ANYWAY
Hey Beth! Fresh eyes. Hope they help you. :) I'm liking it more and more. I couldn't do this without all the great comments. so do your best now. Just a side note for interest. The idea for this story has been with me for....cough,cough...40 years! During my senior year, I received a letter...not qu...
- April 17th, 2010, 1:12 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Black Hole Son (New Approach) (Draft 2)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6038
Re: Black Hole Son (New Approach) (Draft 2)
Hey Wallflower. More feedback for you. Hope it helps. Remy wakes up on a park bench with no memory and no identity. In another part of the city, Ash wakes up in an alley with the same condition. Neither knows the other exists and the only things they have are a powerful instinct to protect and psyc...
- April 17th, 2010, 12:59 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query: A BEAUTIFUL MONSTER
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7507
Re: Query: A BEAUTIFUL MONSTER
Hey hanna. Query hell sure is fun, isn't it? :) Hope this helps as you polish your query. NEWEST QUERY: When Seventeen-year-old Nicola Summers goes outside to take out the trash, she finds her boyfriend Tristan chained in the driveway after being beaten by a street gang. Horrified at the bruises on ...
- March 14th, 2010, 10:17 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Are you appealing to your target audience?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9271
Re: Are you appealing to your target audience?
you know your MC and your story better than us. and my advice is to NOT "repair" the story just for the sake of appeasing readers. how important is it that your audience is female? is it worth changing the character or the pacing? or do you feel strongly enough about the character/pacing/...
- March 3rd, 2010, 10:34 pm
- Forum: Procrastination
- Topic: You know you've been up too late working on your book when..
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7380
Re: You know you've been up too late working on your book when..
...when you're writing a lit analysis paper and...wait, you're writing a lit analysis paper? All you've got is a blank word document and a fabulous idea of how to fix that scene on page 257.
- February 25th, 2010, 9:09 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: QUERY: The Griffinborn
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7139
Re: QUERY: The Griffinborn
More feedback. Hope it helps. :) For generations the Griffin Lords of Galenburg have guarded a secret. For generations (agree with Justine; back-to-back "for generations" disrupts the flow) they have dreaded the world discovering it. When unthinkable happens and their sinister patron (I kn...
- February 25th, 2010, 4:30 pm
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: The Introduction Thread
- Replies: 647
- Views: 406007
Re: The Introduction Thread
Hey everyone! I've been avoiding the "procrastination" forum like the plague--I don't need help not working on my novel--but it's been so awesome to hear more about the peeps here on the forums and I wanted to add my bit. I'm from Illinois and only just qualify to use the term "in my ...
- February 25th, 2010, 4:21 pm
- Forum: Procrastination
- Topic: How old are you?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 46658
Re: How old are you?
Oh, what the heck, I'll fess up too. I'm 20. I got started when I was about 13 or 14...back when I spelled "definitely" like this: "definately." *Bangs head on desk*