June Writing
So June is my month for queries. All school year I tell myself, in June I will get back on track, in June I'll dance the agent-dance. And now it's June!
Dirt is 200 pages rewritten (hurrah!). I have 50ish pages to go, and I'm pretending they're all easy with no rough patches to smooth out :). I'm so close! Yesterday I opened the query and tweaked a lot of the intro and my bio (again) and felt fine with the pitch. Then I opened the synopsis . . .
Yikes! What a mess. Sounds bland even to me. I must distill the adventure into a page or two, keeping the texture of Bitz and Urgh and Dirt with the humor and the mayhem and have it all make sense . . .
Sounds like a mountain.
So I'm thinking (creating). Currently I'm making simple plot points which I will spice up and hopefully breathe life into so they carry the energy of the story into offices around the country. I will believe :) Any tips for synopsis-writing out there? I've read tons of books/advice, but it's still a huge challenge.
And I need to do the same for Tyg.
Meanwhile, I am spending afternoons out at school while the after-care program is going this week for Anika to play (since I'm homeschool, my kiddos end a week early so I can collect and organize all the necessary paperwork). I am sorting papers and boxes and art supplies and the piles that have always been overlooked in favor of energy-conservation (my energy :)). Tiring but at least there isn't an alarm in the morning! Yay.
Baby is doing great! I'm at seven months now. We've got to get serious about a name. We're stumped for boys (we're being surprised). Any ideas? Help!
Dirt is 200 pages rewritten (hurrah!). I have 50ish pages to go, and I'm pretending they're all easy with no rough patches to smooth out :). I'm so close! Yesterday I opened the query and tweaked a lot of the intro and my bio (again) and felt fine with the pitch. Then I opened the synopsis . . .
Yikes! What a mess. Sounds bland even to me. I must distill the adventure into a page or two, keeping the texture of Bitz and Urgh and Dirt with the humor and the mayhem and have it all make sense . . .
Sounds like a mountain.
So I'm thinking (creating). Currently I'm making simple plot points which I will spice up and hopefully breathe life into so they carry the energy of the story into offices around the country. I will believe :) Any tips for synopsis-writing out there? I've read tons of books/advice, but it's still a huge challenge.
And I need to do the same for Tyg.
Meanwhile, I am spending afternoons out at school while the after-care program is going this week for Anika to play (since I'm homeschool, my kiddos end a week early so I can collect and organize all the necessary paperwork). I am sorting papers and boxes and art supplies and the piles that have always been overlooked in favor of energy-conservation (my energy :)). Tiring but at least there isn't an alarm in the morning! Yay.
Baby is doing great! I'm at seven months now. We've got to get serious about a name. We're stumped for boys (we're being surprised). Any ideas? Help!