So, I'm new to this. I'm inexperienced, scared, and desperately in need of some writing friends. You know, someone who can maybe guide me, make me not want to curl up in a corner somewhere with a bottle of vodka....
Writing is my passion. I have a feeling it's the one that's going to stick. But I'm still in college, with English as my major and Writing as my minor. I've currently finished a 93,000-word novel called First Light (it's a young adult/romance/fiction) and have already started on the second to its series. But I haven't won anything, barely have time to join anything, much less the money since I'm college-bound, and when it comes to credentials...? Well, I have none for my query letters, though I have already submitted two (I know, not very many at all). You could say I'm feeling pretty down about myself.
Any advice?
Thumbs up, for now.
-Caroline.
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Yep, stop feeling down on yourself! You have a finished novel!! Do you know how ahead of the game you already are? Many aspiring writers never even get that far. And to have completed it while you are in school is an amazing accomplishment - believe me, I know, I've tried it :)
ReplyDeleteDon't worry about the credentials for your query. Most of us don't have them. Sure, they help, but having them won't guarantee you get published and not having them isn't an automatic rejection. There are a lot of authors out there who didn't have a credential to their name when they sold their first book. If your book is good, it will sell itself.
If you are looking for a great writing community, I'd recommend the forum at Querytracker.net. I have met some of my closest writer friends on that site. The people there are wonderful, helpful, and just fun to talk to :) And there is a lot of help for writing your query or just general support for when you send them out and you are chewing your nails waiting for responses.
So, here's my advice - don't worry about anything but your story. Just write. The rest will take care of itself eventually :)
Hey, girl, you definitely can me as your friend
ReplyDeleteunder one condition: you accept Jesus and you
love your neighbor. How hard is that?
Looky...
But, seriously, folks, as I stand-up
here on this Great Stage of our lifelong demise
(only 66ish feet across and 1-outta-1 croaks),
what's the MOST important objective in your
finite existence, dear? I certainly know what mine is:
Hope2God this provides some knowledge
on your everlasting, spiritual journey;
I may see you again Upstairs... maybe not...
depending on how well WE mortals have fulfilled
our voyage to the Great Beyond by 1) loving God
and 2) loving our neighbor to the best of our ability.
Why else does a moth fly FROM the night
than to a bold, attractive candle Light??
Don’t let His extravagant Brilliance be extinguished.
You’re creative, yes?
Then, fly-away with U.S. to the antidote…
Whether you obtain morality4mortality to wiseabove
or just glean tantalizing specimens for thy next best seller,
you shall find in our blogs a lotta (subliminal) moxie
which has taken this sinfull mortal yeeeeers to compile!
I lay it ALL out for you, dear, with All-Star-Oxygems:
Wouldn’t ya love an endless eternity
of aplomBombs falling on thy indelible cranium?
An XtraXcitinXpose with no zooillogical-expiration-date?
An IQ much higher than K2 all-go-rhythm?
An extraordinarily, anti-establishment-victory
with both sardonic, satirical wit Who’s savvy
and avant-guarde-humility??
Here’s what the exquisite, prolific GODy sed
(with a most-excellent-detector of bull§ht):
“Faith, hope, and love,
the greatest of these is love –
jump into faith…
and you’ll VitSee with love”
Doesn’t matter if you don’t believe (what I write);
God believes in you.
Meet me Upstairs, girl, where the Son never goes down
from a super-passionate, lucrative iconoclasm where you’ll find
nonillionsXnonillionsXnonillionsXnonillionsXnonillionsX…
of deluxe-HTTP [<- pi] opportunities for excitement BTW.
Do it. Do the deed, dude. Sign into the Big-Zaftig-House.
PS “It is impossible that anyone should NOT receive all that they have believed and hoped to obtain; it gives Me great pleasure when they hope great things from Me and I will always give them more than they expect”
-our Lord Jesus to Saint Gertrude
Hey, girl, you definitely can me as your friend
ReplyDeleteunder one condition: you accept Jesus and you
love your neighbor. How hard is that?
Looky...
But, seriously, folks, as I stand-up
here on this Great Stage of our lifelong demise
(only 66ish feet across and 1-outta-1 croaks),
what's the MOST important objective in your
finite existence, dear? I certainly know what mine is:
Hope2God this provides some knowledge
on your everlasting, spiritual journey;
I may see you again Upstairs... maybe not...
depending on how well WE mortals have fulfilled
our voyage to the Great Beyond by 1) loving God
and 2) loving our neighbor to the best of our ability.
Why else does a moth fly FROM the night
than to a bold, attractive candle Light??
Don’t let His extravagant Brilliance be extinguished.
You’re creative, yes?
Then, fly-away with U.S. to the antidote…
Whether you obtain morality4mortality to wiseabove
or just glean tantalizing specimens for thy next best seller,
you shall find in our blogs a lotta (subliminal) moxie
which has taken this sinfull mortal yeeeeers to compile!
I lay it ALL out for you, dear, with All-Star-Oxygems:
Wouldn’t ya love an endless eternity
of aplomBombs falling on thy indelible cranium?
An XtraXcitinXpose with no zooillogical-expiration-date?
An IQ much higher than K2 all-go-rhythm?
An extraordinarily, anti-establishment-victory
with both sardonic, satirical wit Who’s savvy
and avant-guarde-humility??
Here’s what the exquisite, prolific GODy sed
(with a most-excellent-detector of bull§ht):
“Faith, hope, and love,
the greatest of these is love –
jump into faith…
and you’ll VitSee with love”
Doesn’t matter if you don’t believe (what I write);
God believes in you.
Meet me Upstairs, girl, where the Son never goes down
from a super-passionate, lucrative iconoclasm where you’ll find
nonillionsXnonillionsXnonillionsXnonillionsXnonillionsX…
of deluxe-HTTP [<- pi] opportunities for excitement BTW.
Do it. Do the deed, dude. Sign into the Big-Zaftig-House.
PS “It is impossible that anyone should NOT receive all that they have believed and hoped to obtain; it gives Me great pleasure when they hope great things from Me and I will always give them more than they expect”
-our Lord Jesus to Saint Gertrude