No, but a different point
I'm very down at the minute because I'm applying for jobs, and going nowhere slowly. It's taking it's toll, and making my mental robustness for querying on the novel has slipped. A lot, infact.
Also, I've lost confidence in my query letter.
Finally, I'm strongly considering re-writing the first chapter of my book.
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And kinda lacking the motivation to do it.
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Sunday 5 February 2017
On rejection
I saw a post saying you shouldn't blog about the number of rejections you've had.
Because agents might see you've been rejected, and doubt their own judgement.
I don't want to work with an agent who makes that mistake - and also, I'm trusting that agents are smart enough to know that I could have been rejected for any number of reasons, including a different query letter.
Also, I got my first non-rejection today. Of sorts. It was an email saying the agent had decided to stop working as an agent. That's not a rejection.
I mean yes, you could look at it and say maybe my query letter was so bad it made her throw in the towel...
Onwards and upwards!
Because agents might see you've been rejected, and doubt their own judgement.
I don't want to work with an agent who makes that mistake - and also, I'm trusting that agents are smart enough to know that I could have been rejected for any number of reasons, including a different query letter.
Also, I got my first non-rejection today. Of sorts. It was an email saying the agent had decided to stop working as an agent. That's not a rejection.
I mean yes, you could look at it and say maybe my query letter was so bad it made her throw in the towel...
Onwards and upwards!
Wednesday 1 February 2017
on authors
Major reading influences:
Iain M Banks:
Osa Tovaren is Slovakian for wasp factory. This represents one of the biggest conundrums in my reading life.
Some context: If you didn't know, Iain M Banks was the finest sci-fi writer since Asimov. (Opinion). He lived a dual life, writing both sci-fi and modern crime novels. For Sci-Fi, he wrote as Iain M Banks, and for crime, he ommited the M.
I have read every single book by Iain M Banks
And not a single page of Iain Banks. His most famous book, the one that sticks in my mind the strongest was Wasp Factory.
He's a literary hero, and I would be devastated to find that his crime novels were hum-drum. I was so attracted to his ability to create complex plots in insanely complex worlds, believable characters, wonderfully integrating AI and high-end technologies into alien cultures all the while telling outstanding stories.
Could he manage it without the license to create the complexity?
I've never been brave enough to read The Wasp Factory.
Iain M Banks:
Osa Tovaren is Slovakian for wasp factory. This represents one of the biggest conundrums in my reading life.
Some context: If you didn't know, Iain M Banks was the finest sci-fi writer since Asimov. (Opinion). He lived a dual life, writing both sci-fi and modern crime novels. For Sci-Fi, he wrote as Iain M Banks, and for crime, he ommited the M.
I have read every single book by Iain M Banks
And not a single page of Iain Banks. His most famous book, the one that sticks in my mind the strongest was Wasp Factory.
He's a literary hero, and I would be devastated to find that his crime novels were hum-drum. I was so attracted to his ability to create complex plots in insanely complex worlds, believable characters, wonderfully integrating AI and high-end technologies into alien cultures all the while telling outstanding stories.
Could he manage it without the license to create the complexity?
I've never been brave enough to read The Wasp Factory.
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