Why did I choose my blog name? Well, I really don’t feel I have much to add to the manifold sources of information that can be found on the web. Indeed, I debated a long time about even the idea …
Author: mitusents
Biochemist, MBA, then programmer. Now novelist, screenplay writer and hopefully director. What a strange trip it's been.
Dealin Wit Feedback
The first rule regarding feedback: don’t talk about feedback always thank the person giving you feedback. Seriously. No matter how rude you feel they are, how clueless, how obtuse, just say ‘thank you’ and move on. Even if you’re paying …
What finally convinced me to give up novels
As a follow-on to this post, I finally found the source of the data that caused me to give up any notion of financial success as a novelist. If you’re reading this with the goal of being financially successful, …
Why my change in focus from novels to screenplays?
Here’s a summary:
- I wasn’t finding representation for my first novel, possibly due to difficulty in identifying genre.
- So I switched focus to a murder mystery, figuring I could use that, with it’s nice clean genre, to break
DoaCK Developmental Editing, Part 3
This is a three-part post regarding the developmental editing I got for my first novel through Steve, the Novel Doctor. Part 1. Part 2.
This is Steve’s reply to my reply. I included excerpts from mine to …
DoaCK Developmental Editing, Part 2
This is a three-part post regarding the developmental editing I got for my first novel through Steve, the Novel Doctor. Part 1. Part 3.
This is my reply to Steve. I included excerpts from Steve’s where I …
DoaCK Developmental Editing
This is a three-part post regarding the developmental editing I got for my first novel through Steve, the Novel Doctor. Part 2. Part 3.
My hope is by reading this you can get some sort of idea …
For those of you who like data…
An author friend of mine was interested in what was involved in my first novel effort. I guess, to compare with what she was putting into hers. Here’s what I sent, along with some additional information.
I started DoaCK …
Is you is, or is you ain’t?
When I was wondering how to know if I were a writer, I scoured the Internet looking for some way to evaluate my work. Eventually, I accepted that in order to be a writer, one must only write. So, having …
Yep, Queries
I wrote this a long time ago to post on someone else’s blog, but couldn’t for some reason. I sent it to a couple of people and just stumbled across it. It’s a perfect thing to put here.
Yep, queries. …