Tag: querying
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Writing in the Trenches
I got another rejection yesterday! That’s 3 for this project so far, so they’re trickling in steadily. In the meantime, I’m working on my next book. The scene outlines are almost finished, and I hope to start the zero-draft next week. Yet I am plagued – plagued, I say! – by worries that this one…
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Bound to Succeed Eventually
So that post from last year was a bit of a downer, huh! I was feeling very doom and gloom, dragging my feet from rewrites to edits and staring at the words with empty eyes… Nothing was going to get better, I was never going to be good enough, why bother chasing my dreams? It’s…
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2023 Writing Retrospective
It’s no secret that I love a good ol’ retrospective. Both in a team and as a solo event, retros are a useful tool for framing the past iteration of a project/goal and working out what you need to do next. I’ve experimented with weird and wonderful retro formats in the past, but today I’m…
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Year 1 in the querying trenches
(Hello Evie, hope you and Maisie are doing great. And your bf too. I have not memorised his name. If he wants people to remember his name, he should probably try being a dog.) I sent my first ever book query to a literary agent on the 27th of April this year, nauseous with excitement…
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