My writing is a steaming pile of pigeon poop.
I'm a little down. I got a lot of encouraging feedback from the participants at WriteOnCon for my Minion School story, which was nice. But I was hoping for some agently feedback - on the boards, during the pitch sessions - I got nada.
I totally am. Especially this month.I'm sorry to hear about your struggles. One year of difficult writing is no fun. I sincerely hope you're doing better now and feeling more inspired.
My son would just like to remind you all that thinking hurts.
I totally am. Especially this month.
This month, I wrote a whole novel, a short story for the kidlit contest, I'm writing a short story in the novel world for fun, and I'm turning an old novel into a short story to submit to the AW SFF anthology, and I'm excited about all of these things
toldyouso, I'm glad to hear your writing is moving along nicely again. I wish I could say the same. It's not my WIP I'm having trouble with though. It's my query letter which has run into a road block. I just can't seem to get it right, and I've been working on it, letting it sit, returning to it, and reworking on it for the last three weeks. I feel like I'm banging my head into a wall. Yet, for all my misery, I feel as if I'm getting nowhere. Has this ever happened to any of you? I'm about ready to run up the white flag.
OMG, yes. I cannot tell you how many times I've read the ordinary kid query in QLH. And authors do not believe me when I tell them that every single YA/MG contemp fantasy novel is coming in with an "ordinary kid, until (or except)" query. If I'm catching that many in QLH, the slush must be filled with them.especially the part about the ordinary kid