I was reviewing a thread (that admittedly went bad as it went further on, but had some really awesome information in the beginning) about when an agent finds your blog with bad writing on it/fan fiction. Now maybe some of you went back to the very first posts (I really hope you didn't) but there are some awful short snippets from when I was part of a website called 750words.com. The site's idea was to write three pages (approx. 750 words) every day to train yourself to write. That's great...but it didn't work for me personally. All my creative energy was drained into forcing myself to write 750 words so I could stop writing. The starts were awful, probably made only a little sense. And I, in all my mistaken glory, posted them here.
The point of the original thread is that if you wouldn't submit writing to someone, then you shouldn't post it on your blog for readers (or no readers, because at the time I had none lol). So now I'm sitting here thinking about those few abandoned posts. Is it worth going back and deleting them? Will an agent really care? Should I be safe anyway?
More things to ponder...
-Jessie
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Updates, Updates, Updates
Ohmygosh! Snow, Snow, Snow, and even more snow! I am so tired of shoveling!
OK, so I have some updates on writing...although they're so small they barely qualify as updates, unfortunately. I have been going back and forth and back again on my next book choice, and so far I've settled on the idea I will test out. I'm being seriously cautious because BE was the first book I've ever finished. I don't want to give up on another book halfway through.
I'm going to experiment with True Love and Fairy Skulls (mostly because I love that name!). The good thing is I really only have one or two points that I'm including in the book so I can play around and create the world from scratch. But I have no real plot to share with you guys yet, besides the fact that it has fairy skulls...and true love apparently.
I am also going to force myself to finish typing up BE, because, seriously, I just need to finish it. I need to edit the hell out of it, make it amazing, try to make a decent query letter (oh god please) and get myself an agent.
So those are my updates guys. How's your writing going?
-Jessie
OK, so I have some updates on writing...although they're so small they barely qualify as updates, unfortunately. I have been going back and forth and back again on my next book choice, and so far I've settled on the idea I will test out. I'm being seriously cautious because BE was the first book I've ever finished. I don't want to give up on another book halfway through.
I'm going to experiment with True Love and Fairy Skulls (mostly because I love that name!). The good thing is I really only have one or two points that I'm including in the book so I can play around and create the world from scratch. But I have no real plot to share with you guys yet, besides the fact that it has fairy skulls...and true love apparently.
I am also going to force myself to finish typing up BE, because, seriously, I just need to finish it. I need to edit the hell out of it, make it amazing, try to make a decent query letter (oh god please) and get myself an agent.
So those are my updates guys. How's your writing going?
-Jessie
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