Once I’m into a book, I can write up to 10,000 words a day. It’s a looong day, for sure, but I’m so immersed in the story, I don’t notice the time…or my growling stomach. A query letter, though. It takes me hours, sometimes days and weeks, to write one. I’ve determined that I am just not good at selling my work like a good salesman can make you open your checkbook to purchase that car or piece of real estate. And that’s what a book is — a property the author wants to sell to the best possible buyer. Unfortunately, queries are really an author trying to sell to a tried and canny salesman or woman, asking them to add it to their inventory. But these salesmen and women have heard it all before. They already know all the pitches and all the tricks of the trade. The dice are loaded against me, a rank amateur, in convincing them of anything. Well, I’d best get back to writing what I know, then. No sense dwelling on the impossible.
Recently:
- Moving is Tough on Writing Novels
- Move complete & back online…when the DSL doesn’t falter
- Offline for a week.
- The ‘I’ Proposition
- No, I didn’t get eaten by my novel.
- Scott Heim reads We Disappear at last reading at Chelsea
- Hunger in the World
- What a Beta Reader Can & Cannot Do
- A Gift for Eternity Finds a Home
- Today’s Giggle: SE vs Employee, the Benefits — Not.
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