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watervole's for the next few days.
In the end the submission package didn't get put in the post before I left Ipswich, becausepredatrix's printer refused to talk to my laptop after printing the cover letter. And it was refusing to talk to any of the local machines as well unless you cleared the print queue manually and then switched everything off and on again between each file. And sometimes not even then. After a couple of hours of this I gave up. I did get the synopsis draft printed out on watervole's printer last night and went through it, so there's a clean copy printed out this morning, ready to go. By the time I managed to get a draft of the first three chapters printed, it was getting fairly late on in the morning, so I abandoned the notion of getting it in the post today.
Given that decision, I've handed the sample chapters towatervole for some editorial input, and I'm going to spend the next couple of days tearing them apart and rewriting them. When I first started writing this book, I thought I was writing a trashy porn novel (and if you look in rasfc about three years back you'll find me wailing about how I'm finally in a fit state to write again after being ill, and this trashy porn novel plot has hijacked my brain and won't go away). By the time I was 15 kwords or so in I'd realised that it was a political sf novel that happened to have a lot of gay sex in it. I did rewrite the first section to make it more in keeping with the rest of the book, but it could do with another rewrite. In the meantime I'll do the envelope addressing and last read-throughs on the query letter and synposis. Once I'e got the sample chapters done, I can then stuff the whole thing in the envelope and watervole can post it for me later in the week if we don't manage to get to the post office before I leave on Tuesday morning.
I *would* put enough postage on the SASE to allow for the expected postal rates rise in April, except the Post Awful has not yet bothered to inform the public what the new rates will be. Bah humbug.
watervole's for the next few days.In the end the submission package didn't get put in the post before I left Ipswich, because
predatrix's printer refused to talk to my laptop after printing the cover letter. And it was refusing to talk to any of the local machines as well unless you cleared the print queue manually and then switched everything off and on again between each file. And sometimes not even then. After a couple of hours of this I gave up. I did get the synopsis draft printed out on watervole's printer last night and went through it, so there's a clean copy printed out this morning, ready to go. By the time I managed to get a draft of the first three chapters printed, it was getting fairly late on in the morning, so I abandoned the notion of getting it in the post today.Given that decision, I've handed the sample chapters to
watervole for some editorial input, and I'm going to spend the next couple of days tearing them apart and rewriting them. When I first started writing this book, I thought I was writing a trashy porn novel (and if you look in rasfc about three years back you'll find me wailing about how I'm finally in a fit state to write again after being ill, and this trashy porn novel plot has hijacked my brain and won't go away). By the time I was 15 kwords or so in I'd realised that it was a political sf novel that happened to have a lot of gay sex in it. I did rewrite the first section to make it more in keeping with the rest of the book, but it could do with another rewrite. In the meantime I'll do the envelope addressing and last read-throughs on the query letter and synposis. Once I'e got the sample chapters done, I can then stuff the whole thing in the envelope and watervole can post it for me later in the week if we don't manage to get to the post office before I leave on Tuesday morning.I *would* put enough postage on the SASE to allow for the expected postal rates rise in April, except the Post Awful has not yet bothered to inform the public what the new rates will be. Bah humbug.