Furthering the quest of getting published...

[queenklu]

...I hate writing this synopses.

Okay, so, in the wonderful world of publishing (which I know...barely anything. Thank god writing club knows so much more about it, I'd be fucked if I had to do this alone) there are a bunch of awesome hurdles you have to fling yourself over. The way I understand it (could be wrong):

1. Get agent
2. Get publisher
3. Get published
4. ????
5. probably not profit

BUT! Before you can knock number one off the list, you have to do several things:

1. Write a query letter

This is awful. This sucks. You have less than four paragraphs to get someone interested in your 50+k novel. No pressure. One little slip could lose their interest in the blink of an eye. One turn of phrase they don't care for. Essentially, you're fucked. Probably.

THEN. When you struggle and bleed out and mold something you hope and pray is passable as a query letter, there's more.

2. Write a synopses.

It's like a query letter, but LONGER. MORE TORTUROUS. WHAT EVEN IS MY PLOT? DOES IT MAKE SENSE WHEN I HAVE TO LEAVE OUT MOST OF THE SUPPORTING CHARACTERS AND HALF THE LITTLE PLOTTY THINGS? DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT I CHOSE NOT TO GIVE MY MAIN CHARACTER THE BIGGEST SAVE-THE-DAY MOMENT BECAUSE HE'S NOT THE HERO TYPE? DO YOU UNDERSTAND FOLK MUSIC BY A DEFINITION OTHER THAN THE STEREOTYPE OF HIPPY WITH A BANJO?

Hoo. Okay. Just ranting out those questions has given me something to focus on conveying, at least. Gahhhhhhh, writing the entire novel was easier than this.

Sorry for the capslock, bbs. Trying to work some stuff out in my head. :/

eta: In case it needs being said, I'm in nooooo way going to stop writing fanfiction. Fuck it, maybe I should take a novel break and finish up the Leverage OT3 fic I've been promising forever. *hugs you guys*