Very cool Grandpa! I perused the site and will read more in depth but I can tell you that you had me at "My Experience With Venereal Disease"
Oh, well he11!
I missed that one!
Going back to read.
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Very cool Grandpa! I perused the site and will read more in depth but I can tell you that you had me at "My Experience With Venereal Disease"
Sending positive vibes-- good luck!So.....
I've decided to "do something." For the (short) novel I wrote, I'm sending out queries to agents. Yeah, I'm in Unknown Writers Psyche Hell. Wish me luck.
I'm looking into self-publishing, e-wise, for the novellas. Once my workload lessens, I'll plumb it more. I have it on semi-good authority (I choose to look at that authority as half full rather than half empty) that that's the best way to go for novellas. We shall see.
The October issue of Writer's Digest lead story is devoted to 38 agents seeking new writers now!Remember in Misery when Paul Sheldon puts down the words that are the author's most favorite and most feared: "Then End"? (I don't remember the description exactly, but that's how I remember it.)
About a week and a half ago, I put "The End" to a book that I started about 15 years ago, got stuck with for a while, then finally pushed through. At 105,000 words, more or less, it's my first work of a "real" book length. I'm not pushing it as a finished work, because it's not. I'm just sharing relief for having gotten through it. The first draft, anyway.
Now starts the editing and the Dreaded Query Process. Nothing may come of it. In fact, that's the mathematical probability. But it just feels good to have it done and resolved this much.
The October issue of Writer's Digest lead story is devoted to 38 agents seeking new writers now!
That'd be great if you got an agent from one of these. But, if not it isn't a waste of your money as far as I'm concerned. WD itself is a wealth of information.Thank you for that tip! I went and picked it up. Looks like a great issue.