When you recieve a rejection, do you ever wonder if there's a secret language everyone else understands but you? Should you be reading something into the normal looking words and seeing something else? Have a stack and you're starting to lose hope?
This is the thread for you.
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There are steps for the submission process and all of them seem shrouded in definitions that everyone "else" seems to know. Query. Synop. Long Synnop.
Just what they heck are they really? Do you need one? How long should it be?What should be in it?
Come ask your questions and learn from your peers!
Ever hear those unbelievable stories about women passing manuscripts under the stall door at conventions? The problem is, they're not just "stories". Some of those are REAL.
Well, the latest update on the girls went up on TPTSNBN. I'm hoping to have more info and book reviews go up this week here.
We've got a new Beginner Boot Camp Discussion up this week on "Understandng Your Rejection Letter". So if you've had questions, this is the time to get them in! Just click on over to the Write Stuff board. :)
Have a great idea for a story but it's not coming out right? Want to convey great characters and keep readers engaged? Wish you could find a way to get information out without creating the dreaded "info dump"?
Believe it or not...you can do all these things with dialogue!
Join us this month as we go in depth together to make friends with dialogue.
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