QUOTE: ‘In the section called “finding focus,” Clark discussed the need to cut your writing back to its essence.’ Absolutely!
It wasn’t the rejection letters that made me think it over, not really. I was expecting them. Honestly, I think it was the fact of my so definitely expecting them that made me really think it over, like I didn’t have a chance in hell.
It’s because my query letter sucks, I thought. I just need to rewrite my query.
And then I thought,No. It’s something else. It’s not ready.But what could be wrong with it? I have combed over it near to 1,000 times! I’ve checked on every comma, every lineofdialogue; what else could be wrong? What’s missing?
That was the key to the puzzle, “What’s missing,” because the answer to that question is, “a lot apparently.”
One of my favorite writing gurus is Roy Peter Clark. He’s written a bunch of books aboutwriting, most of which I own. I was reading Help! for Writers
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