Self-editing your work / letters to agents

Published by: Harry on 1st Feb 2012 | View all blogs by Harry
Two excellent features on the Cloud today. First:

Wrathnar's Letter to Agents
is fab. If you haven't read it, read it. If you're about to write to agents, then cut & paste the whole thing. And if you don't, you're probably GAY.

Emma & Debi's Prose Intensive
Our very own dynamic duo are currently conducting a prose probe on a willing victim here. It's well worth popping over to see how those guys work - and indeed how intensive self-editing can alter and improve a piece of work.

If you want the same laser eyes turned on your own work then, my friends, that's entirely possible. Just sign up to D&E's self-editing course and prepare for your brain to be fried. Indeed, do you remember the drink called the Pangalactic Gargleblaster, from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Drinking the PgGb was like having your brain crushed by a gold brick with a slice of lemon wrapped around it. Debi & Emma's course is exactly like that, only without the lemon. And some people apparently live. And even enjoy it, or so I've heard ... What I do know, is that this is probably the best, most inspiring and most grown-up writing course available online. It comes strongly recommended.

Comments

7 Comments

  • Wrathnar the Unreasonable
    by Wrathnar the Unreasonable 3 months ago
    Thanks dude!

    Course sounds interesting. If only I had money . . .
  • CJ
    by CJ 3 months ago
    Oh, I'd love to do the course... will there be any more? Right now money is tight, but when I go back to work in April, I can start saving again. It just sounds exactly what I need right now.

    Although, saying that, I'm guaranteed an agent, 'cos I is using Wrath's template. ^^D
  • Harry
    by Harry 3 months ago
    We'll run the course semi-regularly for ever. (I don't think that either Debi or Emma are actually human, so they don't run out. You just have to oil them now and again, and make sure they have access to a minimum 22,000 volt power supply.) But, ahem, as yet we don't have futurish dates.
  • Gels
    by Gels 3 months ago
    Wow, these ladies are on fire. Good on you, Steve. Had a quick scan and will be back for a proper read through when I have more time. Very well worth it by the looks of things...
  • Harry
    by Harry 3 months ago
    It's not fire, actually. It's just a piezo-electric side-effect from all that voltage. They are good, tho.
  • EmmaD
    by EmmaD 3 months ago
    Just dropping in to mention that my preferred oil is Chateau Margaux 1992. Or 1997. I'm not particular to a year or two...
  • Debi
    by Debi 3 months ago
    Lordy, our Emma is pure class, isn't she ... I have cooking oil and some fake Bailey's. We make a good team though.
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