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AnyaHarker

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The Overworkshopped Query

« on: March 30, 2012, 09:02:56 AM »

Miss Snark's Friday Fricassee talked about this today, and I thought it was worth taking a look at and thinking about.

http://misssnarksfirstvictim.blogspot.com/2012/03/friday-fricassee_30.html


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Re: The Overshopped Query

« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2012, 09:26:50 AM »

OK, so it is about an overWORKshopped query, not a query that has been sent out "too many" times...*whew*


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« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2012, 09:41:48 AM »

*stealthily edits subject*

Pay no attention to the woman behind this post. She wrote that pre-coffee.


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« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2012, 10:13:51 AM »

Thanks for posting this Anya. By a show of hands let's see if I can learn something from this. embarrassed2


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Re: The Overworkshopped Query

« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2012, 11:03:00 AM »

Interesting. I've been wondering about that as I work on and work on my query letter. I've had some moderate success. If I work the hell out of my query online and with my writing group and my friends and and and will it stop being me writing in my own voice? However, that could read as though I don't think critique is essential. It is! But all things in moderation, eh? I've had it happen with academic articles where my work has been so critiqued that if I responded to every single suggestion or comment, what makes it mine would be lost.


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