query letters are haaard

[aamcnamara]

Aaa I can't write a good query letter, maybe my book is just terrible, maybe I'm just a fail, noooo, etc., etc.

In other news, I have seen lots of awesome people this week! So that's good. Today I am taking an Introvert Day, because I need it. Also, there are Useful Things What I Should Do: Ideomancer stuff, writing yet another query-letter draft, maybe noodling on this idea I had a few days ago, reading more about Anne Conway.

Am I actually going to query agents about a novel? Flail, flail, flail.

(This entire post: proof that I need to send ARP out, if only to get myself past this stage of utter terror and panic.)

Comments

[tangledaxon]

Have you ever tried running a query letter through Query Letter Hell at the Absolute Write Water Cooler forums? It's an excellent way to refine a query. (You do have to have fifty posts to be able to do so, but it's easy to get that many just by participating in some of the nonsense/fun threads.)

[aamcnamara]

I haven't, no! This is the first time I've tried to write a query letter, so I'm still finding out all the resources for it. Thanks for the tip!