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A Useful Way to Construct a Query

Posted: February 17th, 2010, 4:22 pm
by theWallflower
Here is a useful questionnaire to use when you're trying to construct the synopsis part of your query and you don't know where to start.

http://edittorrent.blogspot.com/2009/04 ... -your.html (Part 1)
http://edittorrent.blogspot.com/2009/04 ... -neat.html (Part 2)

Re: A Useful Way to Construct a Query

Posted: February 18th, 2010, 12:04 am
by Holly
That's a really, really great website. I've seen one of the articles you linked, but the second article is good, too.

Re: A Useful Way to Construct a Query

Posted: February 18th, 2010, 12:01 pm
by Remus Shepherd
Just note that those are recommendations for creating a log line -- a one sentence pitch. That may not be something you want to use in a query. Queries have to go into a bit more detail, and they can run 200+ words.

Log line for my novel: Girl Genius stuck in Orwell's 1984 as a double agent in the League of Extraordinary Psychopaths. :)