Thick Skin my arse

[erastes]

More rejection! I feel like the spotty fat girl at the school dance, or
when teams are being picked. No-one wants my baby werewolf who doesn't
understand what's happening and why everyone is Cross.

Miss Snark is running her 3rd Crapathon tomorrow, and I've got my query
letter and first pages all ready to go to be dissected by an expert. It's a
rare chance that she'll even pick mine to dissect, as she's "Only"
(Only!!!!) doing the first 100, but I'm going to give it a go.

I don't think it's a bad query letter, it certainly doesn't say any more
than it needs to, and it's a hell of a lot pared down from the burble I used
to put, but the weakness might be in my synopsis.

Or, or course... my writing!

I've done five crits now for the new Crit group. I know I'll slow down
after a while, but I'd like to get a few chapters of my own up there, and I
have to crit 3 for every one of mine I place. Trouble is, even in chapter 2
there are ... swellings, and talk of masturbation, so I've had to take it
out with "DELETED TEXT" on it. And I've said that if anyone wants the full
versions, to ask.

I haven't had any critiques for chapter one yet though. *frets impatiently*

Comments

[rwday.livejournal.com]

I try to do the 'write and submit one new story each week' thing that I think Ray Bradbury suggests in his book on writing. I don't always meet that goal, but that's the attempt.

What generally happens is I write a story, and about half the time I recognize that it's crap from the get-go and stick it in the trunk, so I probably submit something new every 2 weeks. As soon as something is rejected, it goes right back out. Do that for a few months and you end up with quite a few pieces out there.

Of course, you have to remember that my children are 16 and 20, I only work part time at a job where I can spend usually 2-3 of my 4 hours there on writing related work. When I had small children and/or was working full time, I was lucky if I could write my name on a check without screwing it up.