Wednesday, November 2, 2011

The Bane of My Existence


I'm about to scream right now.

"You're too general," "You're too specific," "Give me more information," "Give me more to wonder about"

HOW THE HECK ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO WRITE A QUERY??

There are so many different opinions out there, and guess what? 

Agents have different opinions too!

So what can you do to write the most effective query possible?

Work on it. Work, work, work, WORK! And make sure you save your drafts, because you may end up wanting to go back to something you had in a previous draft.

I really wish someone else could write my query for me. But that wouldn't really work, would it?

*Sigh* Back to working...

♥tg

7 comments:

  1. Ugh I'm so with you on this! Querying is a soul-sucking endeavor! Best of luck to you!!

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  2. I hate them! I suck at writing them I envy anyone who is able to shoot these out like they're nothing.

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  3. I hate them, too. I really hate the feedback in which the individual wants everything in it, including the kitchen sink. There's been a few times I've been tempted to post a query for critique with 'kitchen sink' randomly written in. :D

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  4. Oh, I feel your pain. I hate writing query letters, and, as you said, you can't know exactly what should go into it, as every agent seems to want something different. You can't please everyone. Just go with the best you can make it.

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  5. Best of luck! I spent five months writing mine. They are so hard to get just right! But you're right. The best way is to work, work, work. Sigh.

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  6. *grits teeth* They are just. so. fun. arent they?

    Literally, I have documents titled:

    query1....query5, TOTALLY NEW QUERY, NEWER new query, and NEWEST new query. alas... (alas is not a document title. Yet.)

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  7. I could've sworn I already commented on this, but I guess I didn't. But I hate writing queries, too!

    Also--I gave you an award! It's over at my blog. ^_^

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