by Brian Gardner | Jun 4, 2019 | Blog Series, Genres, Publishing Update, Writing Update
Drawing from the Well Queries Sent: 0Total Queries: 35Rejections: 9 Scenes Mapped: 0Total Scenes: 304 I didn’t get any writing done but that was because I dove head first into Guide to Literary Agents 2019. I was surprised by how much advice was in the front of...
by Brian Gardner | Jun 3, 2019 | Blog Series, Genres, Publishing Update, Writing Update
Drawing from the Well Queries Sent: 0Total Queries: 35Rejections: 8 Scenes Mapped: 0Total Scenes: 304 Nothing to show here. Yesterday was a semi-lazy day where I was focused on some non-writing tasks. I got the blog done, but didn’t get to the writing portion....
by Brian Gardner | Jun 3, 2019 | Blog Series, Genres, Publishing Update, Writing Update
Drawing from the Well Queries Sent: 3Total Queries: 35Rejections: 8 Scenes Mapped: 4Total Scenes: 304 Got some done yesterday. I also ordered the current edition of the Guide to Literary Agents. It’ll be here in a week or so at which point my agent search should...
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 10, 2019 | Blog Series, Publishing Update, Tools of the Trade, Writing Update
Drawing from the Well Queries Sent: 0Total Queries: 19Rejections: 3 Scenes Mapped: 8Total Scenes: 269 Another good writing day yesterday. I didn’t get as many down as I did the day before because I had to think through some of how everything was going to work. I...