With fear and trembling, I sent off my submission for the Fairwood Writer's workshop at Norwescon 34 (http://www.norwescon.org/). Ok, maybe that's overstating things a bit. I sent off chapters 1 and 2 and at this point the fear and trembling is more or less gone. I just want to know what they liked, what they didn't and what I should fix. To send it off, I had to write a synopsis. I've never done one before. Worse, it had to be under a thousand words...which makes it an...interesting kind of synopsis. Apparently, there are a lot of different types of synopsis for a variety of uses. Some are used as part of a solicitation letter sent to an editor or agent.
Related, I am sending the first page of Angel Odyssey off for review to someone else. I'm interested to hear what he was to say. The first line of Angel Odyssey is pretty good and I think after a few pages, the chapter gets engrossing but the first page...I do have my doubts. We'll see what he has to say.
The person reviewing page 1 was at the PNWA Holiday Party (http://www.pnwa.org/). I went to the holiday party as part of my baby steps towards being social. It was fun and hard. I stayed for about an hour and a half, pretending to be comfortable and confident. I talked to some folks, got business cards (didn't give any out because that still feels gauce unless someone asks). Most folks were nice, the authors there were all very friendly. I wish I could have stuck around to talk to Susan Wingate but I got hot and ran out of social juice. I decided to eject before I did something weird..er than usual. Anyway, seems like a good thing with mostly nice people. I'll try to go to as many PNWA events as I can.
This week I'm working on the first few chapters, getting my past-due critiques done for my writer's groups and if I have extra time, thinking about and working on my Clarion West application.
Related, I am sending the first page of Angel Odyssey off for review to someone else. I'm interested to hear what he was to say. The first line of Angel Odyssey is pretty good and I think after a few pages, the chapter gets engrossing but the first page...I do have my doubts. We'll see what he has to say.
The person reviewing page 1 was at the PNWA Holiday Party (http://www.pnwa.org/). I went to the holiday party as part of my baby steps towards being social. It was fun and hard. I stayed for about an hour and a half, pretending to be comfortable and confident. I talked to some folks, got business cards (didn't give any out because that still feels gauce unless someone asks). Most folks were nice, the authors there were all very friendly. I wish I could have stuck around to talk to Susan Wingate but I got hot and ran out of social juice. I decided to eject before I did something weird..er than usual. Anyway, seems like a good thing with mostly nice people. I'll try to go to as many PNWA events as I can.
This week I'm working on the first few chapters, getting my past-due critiques done for my writer's groups and if I have extra time, thinking about and working on my Clarion West application.
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