It has been a while since I actually wrote a post for the blog; this entry is the “catching up” part. After I began fleshing out Chapter 8 of Ligan, I put the TOC page up as a splash and concentrated on polishing up the novel.
But the draft of Ligan has been complete since July* and I’ve been researching literary agents, reading advice on the querying process, working up a synopsis (pain-ful), and writing and outlining the sequel(s).
Also, I took down the TOC splash in order to go back to regular blog posts; that’s the “stepping back” part.
The complete draft has been translated to Word format for submission, and what you see here is the initial draft before several significant additions, edits, cuts, and rearrangements.
Actually, you can only see that here if you have the passwords, which most of you don’t. The password to Chapters 2 and 3 (yeah, I know these were public earlier, but this is business time now) I might be persuaded to reveal to interested readers/critics who show insight into the writing.
I will keep you posted on the progress of the querying process.
IN OTHER NEWS
The poetry pages have been consolidated as a single page, simply to clean up the blog. After writing “Storming” earlier this year, I felt a bridge had been crossed and likely will not be writing poetry in the future.
Also, due to problems with my web hosting service and their ever-shifting file manager (which inexplicably changes public access permissions and invalidates .htaccess files) the music previously available here is now, enragingly, unavailable. Multiple conversations with tech support have resulted only in having my intelligence repeatedly insulted while tech support’s lack of intelligence and listening skills were repeatedly demonstrated.
I won’t mention the soon-to-be-former web hosting service here, but I will say:
- They do not deserve the grade that their name implies.
- I am choosing between JustHost and GoDaddy as a replacement. Any advice?
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* Inasmuch as a writer—particularly a writer who has also been an editor—will accept that a piece of writing is ever “complete.”
Yesterday, 13 October 2009, was the day I sent out the first of what will likely be dozens of queries to literary agents (if all the warnings about preparing for repeated rejection have been warranted) for my novel The Ligan of the Disomus.
