Trying to write a synopsis is hard enough. Trying to cut it from 19 to 10 pages is even harder. Now I have to cut it to 4 pages. Oy.

I just redid my query AGAIN. I think this time might be it. Maybe I can sell a book with this one, huh?

(Originally published at Anywhere Is…)

What Am I Thinking?

What possessed me to decide to tweak my first chapter??

WHY WHY WHY?

I’m turning text red again. Not good.

My brain hurts.

But this is essential. I feel it in my bones.

(Originally published at Anywhere Is…)

A long time ago, I’d come up with a pitch sentence for the current novel I’m kindasorta shopping around. I posted it on a board for a workshop but somehow never saved it to my hard drive. Of course, the board lost the pitch sentence and I’d been fumbling around trying to recall it for months.

Well, I was browsing around on Sarah Dessen’s website and came across her page on one of her books: This Lullaby. She talks about how others seem to come up with pitches a lot easier than the actual author–and I remembered the feelings I got when I finally came up with the sentence for my novel. Everything came flooding back and BAM. I had my pitch sentence again. I hurried and wrote it down and emailed it to myself before I forgot.

This is instrumental. If someday I make it to a writer’s conference (and my book hasn’t sold yet), I’ll have my pitch. Excellent.