Query Archives - Debora Dale

Query and Synopsis complete – and I’m still sane.

Of course, the ‘sane’ part is up for debate, but I’m happy to say there was minimal blood-loss as I completed my new query and synopsis. The synopsis scared me even more than the query. I knew my characters so intimately that I couldn’t imagine...

The Query – or Taking a Story Down to it’s Core

fiction, Plotting, Workshops, Writing

So, you know what comes after edits and revisions of a manuscript? Edits and revisions of the synopsis and query. Whether Plotter or Pantser I’ve been told, several times, that the synopsis should be written before the story. If you can do that, I highly suggest...

Starting again… and loving it.

Creating Characters, Plotting, Writing

As I work on the query and synopsis for my completed story, I’m also working on the next one. It’s actually quite exciting. In the past I’ve struggled with “starting”. It seemed the story I just finished – and its characters...

I have crossed the finish line!

Writing

You would think when the finish line is in sight, you’d pick up speed, put all the pent-up energy into the drive to get there, raise your arms in triumph and barrel full-speed ahead. There would be a cheer from a crowd of onlookers, confetti maybe, and a trophy,...

With the end in sight…

Writing

…why am I here blogging? Seriously. I am up to the final scenes before those two amazing words: THE END I can’t wait to type them in context. And yet… I’m also afraid to. I’m in love with the story I’m writing. I’m always in...