Mixed Thoughts

I have been working on rewriting my novella Vampire
in Retail Sucks. The notes are getting done little by little, but will it be
done by the end of December? Maybe. I still need to go through it several
times, and have a few people read it then send it to a professional editor to
read through.




I was mad when I trusted a beta reader/editor to
read my unedited work because she posted a piece of it over facebook, and made
fun of the horrible sentence. You can say she was trying to help me, but
posting it for all the world to see then 
make fun of it in a status is not the way to go. I did not mind the
comments about the sentence I just wish she sent it in a message. I am over it,
and I am learning who to trust, and how to navigate this confusing world we
live in.




I also had one of my ebook artists withdraw from a
project, but I understand why she did it since she is busy with everything. Do
I think about giving up at all thanks to those situations? No I don’t. No way
because it is part of the job when things don’t go as planned at all you still
never give up. In the meantime I am learning the importance of networking and
making connections by talking to people.




In novel writing class we are working on writing a
synopsis which is telling everything up front versus the pitch which you hold
things back to grab an agent. I even had to design a pitch for my story to find
an interesting hook besides the obvious.

I plan on making writing a part of my life more, and
I am going to change my first person story to third. I know I said I will do
Mad Mondays and I have the blog post already, and me being busy is no excuse
for not keeping up with the blog. The next blog post will be about working
retail and the things that annoy me about it.




Any thoughts from writers about pitches and
synopsis?




Until  next
time,




Wolfdreamer25