The "Q" Word.

I have been meaning to post all day but just haven't had the time. Between sledgehammering my laptop, crying in frustration and stopping to eat ramen noodles, I don't know how it came to 10:00!

Perhaps I should explain.

My query got critiqued today and it was pretty much critiqued the way I thought it would go: That's it? Where's the plot? Why is this story different than any other story in it's category?

I won't lie (mostly because it's already in another post), at first I thought my new query was pretty darn good, but it was a lesson learned. Judging by the comments of those critiquing my query, I am not the first one to have stumbled upon a blog and misunderstood (I'm not going to say it was the blogger's fault, I'm the amateur) what was written. I condensed too much, way too much, to the point where it could have just said, "This is Jane. Jane likes a boy. It doesn't work out. She's meant to be with someone else." Live and learn.

So it seems I was actually on the right track with my very first query. I say track because it's nowhere near ready to be flown out into the Land of Agents. In fact, I revised it for about six hours today and still got nothing. I don't know, I can write a book, but when it comes to writing the query in the voice of the novel, or even just trying to explain the plot, I'm at a loss. I wrote at least fifteen different queries today, and all I feel weren't good enough. At this point, I am really worried that my book is going to sit on my virtual shelf, untouched, because I can't write a good query. *sigh*

I wanted this all done before I went back to work. I foresee a lot of caffeine in my future.