by Brian Gardner | May 28, 2019 | Blog Series, Publishing Update, Tropes, Writing Update
Drawing from the Well Queries Sent: 4Total Queries: 31Rejections: 7 Scenes Mapped: 10Total Scenes 299 I finally had that productive day I was angling for. I just hit a groove yesterday morning and started churning out queries. I found several agents who used Query...
by Brian Gardner | May 26, 2019 | Blog Series, Publishing Update, Tropes, Writing Update
Drawing from the Well Queries Sent: 1Total Queries: 26Rejections: 5 Scenes Mapped: 4Total Scenes: 289 I finally broke the dry spell. There was definitely rust on the gears, but I worked through it and got four scenes down (and a query sent!). Fortunately, finishing...
by Brian Gardner | May 13, 2019 | Blog Series, Tropes, Writing Update
Mother’s Day Recap As you can probably guess, I was 100% right in that I got no writing or reading done yesterday. But that’s okay because we had a great day celebrating my wife for Mother’s Day. We went to church and brunch and then got naps on the...
by Brian Gardner | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog Series, Tropes, Writing Update
Drawing from the Well Scenes Arranged: 0Total Scenes: 166 Nothin’ to see here, folks. Filling the Well That Hideous Strength: 54%Elegy: Page 15 of 89Jessica Jones: S2E12 of 13 Nothin’ to see here either. Yesterday was a bit of a mess. Polishing the Well...
by Brian Gardner | Jan 30, 2019 | Blog Series, Tropes
This image is what I always think about when I consider the trope of a character having a “moment of awesome.” It’s their moment where they seize the potential that was inside of them the whole time and ascend to a new level to overcome the obstacle...
