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I'm not sure that this is the proper forum for this thread; if it's not, please forgive me. I looked around for a thread on this topic, but I'm new to the forum and still figuring out the search function, and where everything goes.
I got a partial request today that, among other things, requests a CV. This is the first time anyone has specifically asked for a CV in a partial or full request, and I've never written one before.
I'm pretty much self-taught on this whole query thing -- I learned to write queries and synopsises (synposi?) by reading interviews about what agents liked and didn't like, and examples of what worked and didn't. But that technique isn't getting me a whole lot of help for writing a CV.
My last produced work was an on-again-off-again op ed gig for a local newspaper and a couple of plays performed by a local theater company over 10 years ago. I didn't even major in English in college, because the creative writing department wasn't teaching me as much about writing as the drama department did.
Any advice for how to proceed? Should I just tell them I couldn't deliver a CV because I don't have any recent writing credits?
I got a partial request today that, among other things, requests a CV. This is the first time anyone has specifically asked for a CV in a partial or full request, and I've never written one before.
I'm pretty much self-taught on this whole query thing -- I learned to write queries and synopsises (synposi?) by reading interviews about what agents liked and didn't like, and examples of what worked and didn't. But that technique isn't getting me a whole lot of help for writing a CV.
My last produced work was an on-again-off-again op ed gig for a local newspaper and a couple of plays performed by a local theater company over 10 years ago. I didn't even major in English in college, because the creative writing department wasn't teaching me as much about writing as the drama department did.
Any advice for how to proceed? Should I just tell them I couldn't deliver a CV because I don't have any recent writing credits?