How do you handle it when you really feel like your writing might never see the ink and paper beyond your own printer? I am having another crisis of faith basically because I can't compose a marketable query letter and it's really holding me back. I've read plenty of them and books on writing them, but still it's like it just can't sink in for some reason. My queries are flat and it makes me so upset I just can't DO this properly. (If this is the wrong forum for this please move it but I am not flouncing, just like I said, crisis of faith...)
Do you ever feel like giving up? Part of me really wants to but there is this other part that itches to write, screw the query aspect of it, the writing is what matters and I am addicted to it. Nothing feels as good as composing a really tight and moving scene. Yet nothing hurts as bad as reading one of my queries and knowing it's nowhere near perfect enough to send out to agents. I have posted in the SYW forum in the queries forum but even if people crit my queries and tell me what's wrong I don't know how to go about fixing them.
What do you do when you have a crisis of faith? This isn't my first time for feeling like this either, it probably is about the third time in ten years of trying. I have eight books going on nine and not a prayer of getting anything published as long as I can't write a decent query. It's like they are summaries or synopsises, those I can do, but when it comes to basically selling MYSELF/my work, I fall on my face....
I apologize in advance for the attitude, I just feel a little depressed because I read a book on writing attn grabbing queries and tried writing the pitch thing for the ABNA and it just does not work for me...I don't know how to overcome my ineptitude with writing basically sales pitches for my books...What helps you the most?
Do you ever feel like giving up? Part of me really wants to but there is this other part that itches to write, screw the query aspect of it, the writing is what matters and I am addicted to it. Nothing feels as good as composing a really tight and moving scene. Yet nothing hurts as bad as reading one of my queries and knowing it's nowhere near perfect enough to send out to agents. I have posted in the SYW forum in the queries forum but even if people crit my queries and tell me what's wrong I don't know how to go about fixing them.
What do you do when you have a crisis of faith? This isn't my first time for feeling like this either, it probably is about the third time in ten years of trying. I have eight books going on nine and not a prayer of getting anything published as long as I can't write a decent query. It's like they are summaries or synopsises, those I can do, but when it comes to basically selling MYSELF/my work, I fall on my face....
I apologize in advance for the attitude, I just feel a little depressed because I read a book on writing attn grabbing queries and tried writing the pitch thing for the ABNA and it just does not work for me...I don't know how to overcome my ineptitude with writing basically sales pitches for my books...What helps you the most?