Hot choc and friends please...

[Peggy Lou]

Welcome.

Love that description. Would it be as dark as what a blind turtle would see if it looks at the sky through the eye of a needle on a moonless night?

Querying is hell, but also fun assuming you have some serious sadistic bone in your body. I think most would-be authors have. Why else would we keep on writing, despite getting rejection after rejection?

Anyway you are in the right place.

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Never get sick of cake, really!

 

[Marc Joan]

Hi again. I'm about a third way through the screenplay (measured in time). of the MS I'm looking for an agent for and love writing it. Not sure I would have been able to create it without first writing the book. Not suggesting you try that of course! But with such a complete story at my disposal, plot strength was necessarily sorted out first. Your experience?

I thin it would have been a better screenplay had I first written it as a book/story. All that beat-sheet stuff did not come naturally to me. I think the concept is original, and there is some good humour in there [it pleases me, anyway] but it needs an awful lot of work on the dialogue and plot. One day.

 

[do do Ron Ron]

Welcome! This is a great place to hang out and share the ups and downs of writing with others. We've got wine and beer over at the Agony Aunt thread at the moment...and there's always cake. Everyone else is sick of my cakes, but here's one just for you.
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Welcome! This is a great place to hang out and share the ups and downs of writing with others. We've got wine and beer over at the Agony Aunt thread at the moment...and there's always cake. Everyone else is sick of my cakes, but here's one just for you.
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Thanks for the cake! I used to be in the cake business actually! So appreciate all things cakey (the more chocolaty the better. In fact there isn't enough choc in the world for me). Will have a gander at the AA thread.

 

[do do Ron Ron]

Welcome, and yes it happens. Lots of things happen, but writing mostly

Hi Alistair, thanks for your message. I'm not only new to this site, but I've NEVER blogged before...have I made a mistake?

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Sick of cake. I think not, baby puppy.

 

[do do Ron Ron]

Sick of cake. I think not, baby puppy.

I like baby puppies. But I couldn't eat a whole one.

 

[Robinne Weiss]

Oh no! A professional! Now I'm going to feel compelled to hide my cakes lest they not stand up to the scrutiny of a professional eye.

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Hide the cakes over here>>> I'll look after them

 

[James Marinero]

Welcome Ron! Your avatar reminds me of someone from Monty Python. From what I read you are just as crazy and inventive. LOL

 

[KG Christopher]

Welcome, love the profile pic

 

[do do Ron Ron]

Hide the cakes over here>>> I'll look after them

My wife is the professional. I just sold them! The easy job.

 

[do do Ron Ron]

Welcome, love the profile pic

Thank you! Just had my hair cut- not quite the mad prof, now.

 

[do do Ron Ron]

Welcome Ron! Your avatar reminds me of someone from Monty Python. From what I read you are just as crazy and inventive. LOL

James, that's a nice and encouraging thing to say. I appreciate it. Here's one for everyone; I am yet to get the interest of an agent, never mind a publishing deal. I'd give a lot for someone to say to me: "it's great, lets get together" (obviously) or "It needs work, but it's got potential", or even "It's crap, don't give up the day job". Then I'd have a fix on where I am. Alas, all I'm getting so far is wishy washy stuff. Collective experience in this aspect greatly appreciated...

 

[do do Ron Ron]

Oh no! A professional! Now I'm going to feel compelled to hide my cakes lest they not stand up to the scrutiny of a professional eye.

Only in respect of selling said cakes! Don't worry- your's looks loverly!

 

[Robinne Weiss]

James, that's a nice and encouraging thing to say. I appreciate it. Here's one for everyone; I am yet to get the interest of an agent, never mind a publishing deal. I'd give a lot for someone to say to me: "it's great, lets get together" (obviously) or "It needs work, but it's got potential", or even "It's crap, don't give up the day job". Then I'd have a fix on where I am. Alas, all I'm getting so far is wishy washy stuff. Collective experience in this aspect greatly appreciated...

Yeah, that's pretty much what we all get. Having beta readers helps. I also paid for professional assessments on my first two novels, which were very helpful--like a highly personalised writing workshop focused only on my weaknesses. From agents and publishers, 99.999% of 'feedback' is form letters or crickets chirping in the silence.

When you've been around Litopia for a while, the Houses will appear. This is where we post our works in progress (or parts of them) in order to get feedback from one another. I've found the feedback here very helpful.

 

[Quillwitch]

Do you find it difficult to write multiple projects at once?

Hello Ron. Not at all. I´m constantly jumping from one project to another. It keeps boredom away. The downside is that you never finish anything.

 

[Quillwitch]

Thanks for the cake! I used to be in the cake business actually! So appreciate all things cakey (the more chocolaty the better. In fact there isn't enough choc in the world for me). Will have a gander at the AA thread.

Unfortunately, chocolate is in danger of dissappearing. Just thinking about that possibility makes me nervous.

 

[do do Ron Ron]

Hello Ron. Not at all. I´m constantly jumping from one project to another. It keeps boredom away. The downside is that you never finish anything.

I hear that!
Good to hear writing multiple projects at once is not unusual.

 

[do do Ron Ron]

Unfortunately, chocolate is in danger of dissappearing. Just thinking about that possibility makes me nervous.

That's somewhat overstated. It'll be around a while yet.