A Bit of Silliness, Really
Your Birthdate: August 10 Independent and dominant, you tend to be the rooster in most situations. You’re very confident and hardly anything ever shakes – or bakes – you. Mundane tasks make you feel peckish – you prefer to be making great flight plans. You are quite the original recipe. When people don’t “get” you, it makes you crow. Your strength:...
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One of my stories got rejected today. It didn’t upset me. Disappointed, yes. Upset, no. When a writer sends out a query letter, a story, a partial, or full, he is asking the recipient, “Do you think you can sell this?” The answer is either yes or no. Nothing more is necessary. The question you ask in a query is not, “Do you think I’m a good writer? Or...
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