dreams, weather, query frustration
Mar. 27th, 2007 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
la_belle_laideIt got up to 74 degrees today, WOOOOO! I took the dogs out, then I took some of my houseplants out and hosed the winter off of them. Sadly, it's going back down into the 40's again for the rest of the week, but for today, it was like late Spring, and I pretended for a while.
Last night, just as I was drifting off to sleep (you know, that part where your conscious thoughts melt into dreams?) I was dreaming about Kilauea. I was walking along the caldera, when a voice started to come from some intercom systems warning me that I had to get away, get away, get away fast, something was about to happen. It's funny that the volcano had an intercom system, right? ^_^ Anyway, I woke up and wrote "Kilauea" on my wrist so that I would remember it. It stayed there the whole day right underneath the bruises from last night's class.
So, still having some PCD, but I busted out my query letter again and I found a HUGE flaw in it. I struggled madly with that stupid hook, the "OMGz CHECK THIS OUT!!!!" opening, and then I never followed up on that aspect of the story. Even though it is, yanno, the one thing that sets the character apart from the others. I added a little blurb about it again towards the end ("LOOK, it ties in! Kinda.") but I think I need to add more. OTOH, I don't want to make the letter too long. With the stupid letterhead (which I just basically typed my name and address at the top,) it's already spilled over onto page two, single-spaced.
*beats head against floor*
House tonight. New for the next nine weeks! :D
ETA: TREEFROGS!
Last night, just as I was drifting off to sleep (you know, that part where your conscious thoughts melt into dreams?) I was dreaming about Kilauea. I was walking along the caldera, when a voice started to come from some intercom systems warning me that I had to get away, get away, get away fast, something was about to happen. It's funny that the volcano had an intercom system, right? ^_^ Anyway, I woke up and wrote "Kilauea" on my wrist so that I would remember it. It stayed there the whole day right underneath the bruises from last night's class.
So, still having some PCD, but I busted out my query letter again and I found a HUGE flaw in it. I struggled madly with that stupid hook, the "OMGz CHECK THIS OUT!!!!" opening, and then I never followed up on that aspect of the story. Even though it is, yanno, the one thing that sets the character apart from the others. I added a little blurb about it again towards the end ("LOOK, it ties in! Kinda.") but I think I need to add more. OTOH, I don't want to make the letter too long. With the stupid letterhead (which I just basically typed my name and address at the top,) it's already spilled over onto page two, single-spaced.
*beats head against floor*
House tonight. New for the next nine weeks! :D
ETA: TREEFROGS!
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Re: pish tosh!
Date: 2007-03-28 02:24 pm (UTC)My worry has always been that even though I write SF/F, it's atypical. Not "atypical" in the way that means "Oh, this is so groundbreaking!" but more like, "Uhhh... Okay then, freak."
What has kept you from trying to find an agent or publisher for that novel of yours? Lack of time, or you just don't feel like it?