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Stealth Ninja Unicorns

July 31, 2011 by

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So, you know how I was having trouble figuring out the framing of the backstory? Apparently the way to solve this is to write more backstory from yet another time frame. (No, don’t ask me to explain how that helps. I don’t know how it helps.) And the backstory has a lot more blood in it […]

Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies

July 28, 2011 by

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Since I finished the first book, sent out my queries and so on, you would be forgiven for assuming that I was now working on finishing off the second book. But as writing (at least when I do it) bears about as much resemblance to logic as most things in Wonderland, this is in fact […]

How NOT to Appeal to a Potential Agent (or Mate)

July 26, 2011 by

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Paul thinks I should update you on my search for representation thing. I think this may be the first step on a descending spiral of madness and despair, but what do I know? So. On Friday an agent (one of those at the very top of my shortlist of favourites) asked to see a partial […]

I picked up a hatchet and…

July 25, 2011 by

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So. Er. Some clarity. Or: A thing you ought to know (that may or may not make me appear more sane when babbling later on). If you know this already you can to skip this bit. Otherwise, this will function as a history lesson. I wrote The Path of the Monster as the creative component […]

Punctuation is key

July 21, 2011 by

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“You need a comma. Because it wasn’t the farmhouse that was seeking answers.” “How do you know?”

The Jam Tomorrow of the Writing Game

July 19, 2011 by

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I submitted my first batch of queries yesterday. Apparently I was supposed to tell people that. There. I’ve told. I didn’t say anything because it’s not time for celebration, it’s just the dawn of a widening chasm of hopelessness and despair *ahem* I mean, patient waiting period. There will be cautious optimism if one of […]

The End. The End. *dance*

July 18, 2011 by

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In between writing query letters I’ve been writing a synopsis. Where ‘writing’ is composing a sentence and then thinking, ‘well, that’s stupid’, writing another and glaring at it, and then deleting both and starting again. Which is made worse by the fact that I’ve already done this once. But that was back when the first […]

A good query letter is one that gets them to call you

July 16, 2011 by

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A query letter is a tricky piece of writing. It has to excite the interest of the reader while being informative, condense the basic plot to a couple of sentences that still give a clear indication of what’s in the book, be funny and sound like your book while still being professional, tell them about […]

Gosh, I’m brilliant, wouldn’t you like to publish me?

July 14, 2011 by

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I remember sitting in a writing class as an undergrad and having a lecturer telling us that selling our work, schmoozing and so forth was almost as important as good writing. And I saw people exchanging matching glances that said quite clearly, But I decided to be a writer so I wouldn’t have to talk […]

The Next Thing

July 13, 2011 by

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So, I want ‘the next thing’ to be finishing editing the second book, and writing the third one. And then maybe writing something else entirely. Maybe something science fiction that I’ve been dreaming about (yes, literally, dreaming). But instead, I’m being good. I’m doing research, I’m writing query letters, I’m sending my words into the […]

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