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On to outline

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Last week, I completed a three page synopsis for NHI and started expanding it. I didn’t quite make five pages, which was my original target, but I have enough to start working on the outline. Since I know the synopsis will most likely change by the time I finish the outline, anyway, I’ve decided to [...]

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Tags: NHI · The Shadow in Her Eyes · Writing

Either not too sycophantic, or just enough

August 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Apparently, my attempt at personalizing yesterday’s email query wasn’t as bad as I’d thought, because the agent responded today with a request for the first 30 pages of my manuscript.

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Tags: The Shadow in Her Eyes · Writing

Queries on the old, progress on the new

August 13th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m finally getting off my butt to send query letters out for SHE. It’s not fun. Even though I have a solid query body ready to use more or less as-is, I tried to personalize the one I just sent and realized as soon as I’d clicked Send that it was less “personalized” than “sycophantic.” [...]

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Tags: NHI · The Shadow in Her Eyes · Writing

That’s better

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

After Monday’s gripe-fest about how I wasn’t making sufficient progress on NHI, I immediately summoned my inexhaustible reserves of discipline and focus and…
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No, actually, I instead wrote half of a rough draft for a short story unrelated to NHI except that it takes place in the same city. But that’s OK. It gave me time [...]

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Tags: NHI · Writing

(Not much) progress

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments

I am not making anything like the kind of progress I’d hoped for on NHI. I’ve put about 20 hours of work into it and don’t have more than the sketchiest idea of the plot. At 20 hours, I’d planned to have at least a short plot synopsis complete from which to start building the [...]

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Tags: Writing