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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-25-10 11:03 PM
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Ah fun
so these days one of the non fiction markets I am looking at does net forms. Here is the trick. The body of your proposal cannot be longer than 200 words.

So I spent all day editing 200 words...

No, never ever send a first draft, or a second draft or a third draft.

So it took all day to get that to where I wanted it... oy.

Done. Sent...

And at one point I would have at best, edited it once.
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jotsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-26-10 01:34 PM
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1. Well then, Miss Nadanny
Let's have a look see?
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-26-10 01:51 PM
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2. What the proposal? You would only get the finished product
I did not save any of the darm drafts.
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sybylla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 08:53 AM
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3. I had to do that for a fiction query
They wanted a jacket-cover synopsis and I think it took me a week before I had it where I wanted it. I've never worked 100 words over so hard.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 12:32 AM
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4. I must say, it was all kinds of fun
still waiting to hear from them.

But that is the way things are with markets... hurry up and wait.
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