Hello!
I've been writing my (assigned) query letter and this fine lady recommended that I use this fine website to help me out (because writing a one-page letter is harder than writing a 400-page manuscript. True story!). Specifically, there is a section in the sidebar that is dedicated to everything you wanted to know about queries. I've only read a few articles and already it's been hugely helpful, specifically this article. So here's a little plug for KidLit. (because that's what I've been talking about this whole time. For those of you who have been too lazy to click on the link above. Shame on you.)
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Lama Glamas
HEY GUESS WHAT. Remember the plot for my original IP?
Turns out it wasn't working. At all. Maybe I'll go back to it later. I still really like my characters, but they just... didn't do anything. And that's no good for novel-writing. So we'll just put them on the backburner for a while (sorry, Virginia).
My new IP has...
(drumroll)
llamas.
It was really late at night and I just needed a chapter and my other story wasn't working so I just found an online prompt generator and it told me to put llamas in my story so I did and that's just how it happened OKAY.
We had a good discussion about it in class, though. They gave me a lot of good ideas about where I can go with it. So now it doesn't sound quite so stupid anymore.
Well, no. It's still about llamas. So it's still pretty stupid. But hopefully in a good way. Can that happen?
Also, Becca recommended that I read this book, which is Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs. She said it had the same feel as the beginning of my story. So that's what I'm going to be reading next week! And maybe that will inspire me as I write my IP.
Hey, I just realized that this is my last (required) blog post of the semester. Weird! This semester has gone by so quickly, which is sort of a cliche thing to say, but it feels especially true in this case. Part of me feels like I should be going back to the same classes after Christmas. But I won't.
Oh dang, now I'm getting all sentimental/emotional. (What exactly is the difference between those two words? I guess I should look it up.)
Anyway, for the people in my class that read my blog: I'll probably keep posting updates semi-regularly. Even though I think only two people in my class read this, one of those being my sister. But I digress. Writing about writing makes you want to keep writing, you know? It's like I'm accountable to my audience (even though there are only two people out there) and I can't let my "fans" down, so I have to have at least a little writing to share with the world.
Does that make sense?
But in any case. It's been a blast, Fall Semester. Thanks for the good times.
And the llamas.
P.S. "Emotional" refers to feelings of joy, sadness, love, hate, etc. While "sentimental" can also refer to these same feelings, it usually has a connotation of remembering the past, or nostalgia.
Turns out it wasn't working. At all. Maybe I'll go back to it later. I still really like my characters, but they just... didn't do anything. And that's no good for novel-writing. So we'll just put them on the backburner for a while (sorry, Virginia).
My new IP has...
(drumroll)
llamas.
It was really late at night and I just needed a chapter and my other story wasn't working so I just found an online prompt generator and it told me to put llamas in my story so I did and that's just how it happened OKAY.
We had a good discussion about it in class, though. They gave me a lot of good ideas about where I can go with it. So now it doesn't sound quite so stupid anymore.
Well, no. It's still about llamas. So it's still pretty stupid. But hopefully in a good way. Can that happen?
Also, Becca recommended that I read this book, which is Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs. She said it had the same feel as the beginning of my story. So that's what I'm going to be reading next week! And maybe that will inspire me as I write my IP.
Hey, I just realized that this is my last (required) blog post of the semester. Weird! This semester has gone by so quickly, which is sort of a cliche thing to say, but it feels especially true in this case. Part of me feels like I should be going back to the same classes after Christmas. But I won't.
Oh dang, now I'm getting all sentimental/emotional. (What exactly is the difference between those two words? I guess I should look it up.)
Anyway, for the people in my class that read my blog: I'll probably keep posting updates semi-regularly. Even though I think only two people in my class read this, one of those being my sister. But I digress. Writing about writing makes you want to keep writing, you know? It's like I'm accountable to my audience (even though there are only two people out there) and I can't let my "fans" down, so I have to have at least a little writing to share with the world.
Does that make sense?
But in any case. It's been a blast, Fall Semester. Thanks for the good times.
And the llamas.
P.S. "Emotional" refers to feelings of joy, sadness, love, hate, etc. While "sentimental" can also refer to these same feelings, it usually has a connotation of remembering the past, or nostalgia.
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