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Sent out manuscript samples to two agents and there's a grammatical error in the first three sentences.
The mistake: "it was an reasonable one" instead of "it was a reasonable one".
And I proof-read the sample many times...yet it still got through...
Positive: there are hundreds of other agents. Just gotta not fuck up on those.
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anyone read any big, decent, high fantasy recently? the last i read was the 10 books of the malazan book of the fallen, about 2 years ago. it was great in some regards, but the way he kept on introducing interesting storylines throughout a novel, then completely abandoning them in the next was kind of frustrating. great world building though.
Alan Moore's Jerusalem is a huge slab of fantasy / surreal storytelling. He literally leaves nothing out, and is definitely a book you can lost in. He makes the idea of Eternalism very enticing.
As for pure fantasy, no idea. I hate elves and things with furry feet. [/troll]
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Yeah, I'm no expert at all but past experience is that initial queries are answered quickly and briefly. One agent responded with "Yes, go ahead! :)" before so I'm going by past expectations.
And one agent I am sending to asks that you do not bother with query emails at all, so you have to be careful. Double-check, triple-check and panic anyway!
Writing a book? Easy. Sending submission packets? The worst.
edit: For example, I just sent a query email to another agent. She has already responded:
"Yes, I am accepting submissions.Best wishes,[Name]"That's how quick and brief I was expecting! XD -
By query email I mean simply an email asking if they are willing to receive submissions. I am aware of the waiting process once a submission has been made, but usually agents respond within a day or two for simple queries, especially if said agent states on their agency profile they are more than happy to answer initial queries.
I'll just use the time to make sure the manuscript is perfect. I'll send another email if a week goes by.
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Sent a query email to a literary agent, and that agent has not responded for three days now. At first, I was bummed...but a day after the email, I suddenly had second thoughts about the way my book was written, and have altered it so I like it more. And changed the title. Complete changes, actually!
So if this agent had responded immediately, I might have sent work I suddenly wished to change, and would have been unable to do so. A first world problem that sort of became a good thing?
Proper first world problem: Agent has still not responded. Do I email again and risk sounding like a pest? Do I skip her and email someone else at the same agency, risking sounding like someone just shotgunning submissions to everyone? Do I just send my manuscript anyway and find out months later this agent has quit or has been on holiday for months? I know we're busy, but surely a quick email saying "yes" or "no" is not too hard to do...
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Completed Hollow Knight ending 1. Can I be bothered to do the other endings? Some of them take a long time to get to... eh
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If a trigger warning triggers you, how do you give a trigger warning for it?
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It's a baby seal on stilts
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Was about to send a bunch of important documents out and I realise that the digital signature on the files lists the author as being "Fuck You". And cannot be changed. Welp.
Easy fix: transfer to new document, "Fuck You" disappears...but still, almost a big problem!
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My FWP: I shitted up the FWP thread. Sorry guys.
TBF, you did start it. Report yourself.
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Completed Everspace, FINALLY. Feel pretty satisfied: the stats on Steam suggest not many people at all get that far, and that the few who do do not use the ship I did (the Colonial Scout, which is made of tracing paper). And I did it in under 60 runs. Some folks have done 100 and not completed one run.
So, feeling good. Highly recommend to those who want a rogue-lite experience in space with purty graphics.
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Poop is a load of shit.
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Ordered sofa at midnight, Tuesday. Arrived Thursday morning. Considering the complaints some people on the site had about "weeks of delays," I did pretty well.
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Loot boxes teach an important moral lesson: unless you have money, you'll never get anywhere in life.
Nearly finished with Everspace, but have fucked up in dumb ways on the final boss. Now I have to spend another two hours getting there... If the game wasn't so pretty, and so easy to play, this would be hell.
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Finished Sourdough by Robin Sloan and I really enjoyed it. Kinda reminded me of a lighthearted Thomas Pynchon: mysterious people who may or may not be real, technology used for good and bad ends, a bunch of dudes saying dude...and a main plot about how to make sourdough. Oh, and a finale that is bizarre but, considering the rest of the story, realistic. And kinda terrifying, too.
Beware: makes you want to eat sourdough.
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lol was waiting for something along those lines
I was wishing I had a Ryoji Ikeda album among my work CDrs
When the radio at work plays up and sounds like garbled mp3 noise, someone ususally shouts 'oi, who put [bechuga]'s music on?'
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25% of the Touched 3 comp are Boards Of Canada clones. Mostly good ones, but clones nonetheless.
hey have u heard of b r a i n w a l t z e r a ???/
Nope! Any good?
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25% of the Touched 3 comp are Boards Of Canada clones. Mostly good ones, but clones nonetheless.
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Two pages of space to synopsize a story that features multiple overlapping narratives, multiple themes and ideas, is told in non-linear fashion, skips between fictional worlds and fictional worlds within the fictional world and uses multiple styles to do it all? H E L L.
Been working on it for five days and it's still an unwieldy mess. Might as well paint a sign to my head stating "unsellable literary guff".
edit: Oh, and the sofa I ordered is going to be delivered while I am at work. God damn it. I can get home to receive it and back to work again, but it's going to be a mess. Everything's a mess!
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Somehow, Bleep are selling one of the Leyland Kirby vinyls in their current sale. Dunno where they found it, but so glad they did. Always regret not completing the set.
https://bleep.com/release/85072-leyland-kirby-sadly-the-future-is-no-longer-what-it-was
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Using two different spellcheckers on my book and both flag up the most common of words as being incorrect. Examples that are "incorrect":
- spectated
- mushroom
- until
- filmography
- arse
- titties
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Been stalling on Sunny by Taiyo Matsumoto for some reason, even though I love his stuff. Time to buy what I can before it all rockets to sky high prices.
stupid first world problems you're dealing with
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Growing tumours put pressure on the brain, so they can cause all kinds of effects. Read Do Not Harm by Dr. Marsh for a little insight into how much a tumour can affect the brain. And, also, how resilient the brain can be, even under such immense pressure.
Did you know: to operate on the brain, they do not use a scalpel, but a plastic sucker. Seeing as the brain is just goo, knives are not needed.