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  1. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    This, I now realize, I have to do, AG. I've been using letter-sized pads, but looking through the notes I wrote for the next novel, I see I've got notes for seven different stories thrown in with it along with various ideas for comedy sketches, the odd phone number or two, and an order for...
  2. Senator Jack

    "Mad Men" on AMC (US) - (Spoilers Within)

    ACK! I just watched the last episode and there was my television, a 1960 GE Coaxial, inside my television. Pretty cool, but it will now forever be linked with the vision of little Sally caught in the act of 'wiggling'? (was that just a NY term?)
  3. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    A succinct, 'It's clever, but not for us.' Unbridled Books. Too bad. I think it would have been a good fit.
  4. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    Rejected again. :( Now comes the depression.
  5. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    That's exactly how I've always put it, David. The climax and denouement are the attic and roof, and once i finally get those in place, I find I have to go back and shore up the basement and frame by adding facts, emotions, characterizations. Sort of like saying, 'Oops, the house is leaning to...
  7. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    Some anguish, I would say, but not depression. For me, anyway, as I write comedy. Early on, I learned to stand back from my characters. Their depression, anguish, problems is/are not my depression, anguish, problems, etc. Indeed, I really don't trust writers who write 'to get something off their...
  8. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    Ugh, I HATED writing a five-page synopsis. I think it took me days. Really, no writer should have to go through that agony.
  9. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    It's going to be a pins and needles weekend. Sent out an email query this early a.m. and within an hour received a request for a full. And this was from a publisher! Here's something else I've learned: send email queries out before working hours. Like everyone else, agents get up, make...
  10. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    Yet replace 'World War II' with 'vampires' and they'll take notice, won't they?
  11. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    My rejection from Academy Chicago came yesterday. :mad: They say they've seriously cut back on fiction.
  13. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    Oh, and drinking does make the rejection easier. I'm having my evening gin and just got a rejection from a referral. It was the usual 'It did not come together as I had hoped' bit. Meh. Do these agents take a college class: 'Rejection 101'? They all use the same shpiel.
  14. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    Yeah, sorry to hear that, Undertow. I got the cilantro/curry bit as well. From experience, I can tell you what you need to do in the query department. Hopefully, this will be the one and only rejection you get, but if not, you should start fine tuning your queries based on the feedback you...
  15. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    Yeah, that's the cat I sent it to. Maybe I got him at the right time: Saturday morning. Or perhaps it was that I personalize my letters when I can, which I'm sure you do, too. He's got The Coney Island Mermaid Parade listed as a favorite event on the site, and since I occasionally drive in it, I...
  16. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    To whom did you send it? The top man or one of the underlings?
  17. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    That's just it. That's why I thought he'd get me, because they're definitely not looking for 'in' over there. He even gave me credit for not mentioning 'Mad Men' in my letter, which, now that I think about it, I should have been doing in all my previous queries. :eusa_doh: (Even though Mixing...
  19. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    While after nine months of queries I'm inured to most rejections, some still hurt. Sent an email query to Max Lit on Sat morning and by the afternoon, we already had several exchanges. I knew it could go either way as he explained that reading my query was a roller coaster of 'yeses and noes'...
  20. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    No, I did not know about Max Literary, but they are definitely getting a query first thing in the morning. Thanks for that lead! To twist Dorothy Parker's 'I hate writing. I love having written,' it can be said that the modern reader 'hates reading, but loves having said 'I read.' I really...
  21. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    I had to take a few months off from query writing, but I just started to send out to the slush piles of a few of the smaller imprints. Maybe something will come of that. What I'm really tired of hearing, though, is '120,000 words is too long.' I just got that from another agent without his even...
  22. Senator Jack

    And You Wonder Why I'm a Cynic...

    Never heard from the guy. Hope the judge let him off.
  23. Senator Jack

    Any writers?

    Wanting to be successful in the arts does seem elicit a elicit supercilious response from people these days, especially from women. When asked what I'm doing with my life, I say, 'Trying to sell a book I wrote,' and ninety percent of the replies are, 'Isn't the real satisfaction from having...

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