This is mostly an aaaaarrgggh frustration post and any advice offered would gratefully received.
So, publishing, the industry. It isn't all about the writing, right?
I have a couple of attributes which I think, given feedback, woud be attributes as a writer
I can rewrite quickly and to the desired spec and have no problem doing so. Murdering darlings? Hand me the cleaver.
I am committed and have good time management.
I write quickly, I can take the seeds of an idea and turn it into a novel with the average idea to finished about eight months. And if you tell me once to fix this it will dang well be fixed.
Does this sound like a job application? It should.
Where, in the query process does this have any place? Or is it the query only and to heck with attributes? Should it go in the bio, and even if it did, it ain't worth the paper...
I suspect some of this comes from knowledge of the writer but I am stuck in Northern Ireland with no local networking opportunities and while i am on twitter and absolute write and here, they're all swamped outlets.
Any suggestions? Or am I stuck on the circle of hell that is query letters and pitches and one liners and the sheer soul destroying nature of all that? Are we all?
So, publishing, the industry. It isn't all about the writing, right?
I have a couple of attributes which I think, given feedback, woud be attributes as a writer
I can rewrite quickly and to the desired spec and have no problem doing so. Murdering darlings? Hand me the cleaver.
I am committed and have good time management.
I write quickly, I can take the seeds of an idea and turn it into a novel with the average idea to finished about eight months. And if you tell me once to fix this it will dang well be fixed.
Does this sound like a job application? It should.
Where, in the query process does this have any place? Or is it the query only and to heck with attributes? Should it go in the bio, and even if it did, it ain't worth the paper...
I suspect some of this comes from knowledge of the writer but I am stuck in Northern Ireland with no local networking opportunities and while i am on twitter and absolute write and here, they're all swamped outlets.
Any suggestions? Or am I stuck on the circle of hell that is query letters and pitches and one liners and the sheer soul destroying nature of all that? Are we all?