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The butt ones look easy to draw, but they aren’t! Oh well, more things to try…

I like to focus on just one body part / element (like a boat in an island painting or whatever…oh yeah that reminds me, I do have a boat to re-visit).

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I’ve not much to rant about — damn, I still have two books I really wanna finish though — and I was wondering about blog directories and thingies. I finally added everything [6 blogs (!)] to Technorati so yeah, I think I’ll just leave it at that.

Did some drawings recently, will get round to posting whichever I want at any time.

This was the first time I tried acrylic paints — I think I prefer watercolors ^^. I’d get some lovely high-quality watercolor paper, but I don’t exactly have money to burn just yet…

This one is cropped + watercolor filtered on Photoshop.

And coz I feel like pimping this — if you have artwork you’d like to submit, you can do so at The Galeon.

The reason I’ve a bunch of blogs/sites (7 in total, though I am sort of sitting on 1, so that makes 6) is due to my varied interests. A hodge podge blog that included writing rants, website/web design tips, unique gift finds, fantasy art, as well as links to nice artsy and related websites, would be a bit *too* much of a variety, so much so that it might have led to that one blog with everything in it being way too cluttered, which is something I don’t really appreciate the slightest.

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I added two lines to my query letter. They might make a difference. Wish me luck.

I apologize that I (currently) am not including more snippets or excerpts from various components of this whole novelling shebang — bits from the query letter, synopsis (mine is one-page long), or actual manuscript itself. I’m one of those typically “shy & reserved” writers that really just enjoy writing books (though that is far from being the only side to myself). But I know I’ve to attend to the “business” side of things if I want to get anywhere in this career.

And to think I was a mass communications student before. I don’t know if I consider myself a drop-out. I left the 3-year course halfway. Something to think about…

PS: To be fair, I’ve had at least 2 agents that have replied, that weren’t too moronic. I guess I’ll include those replies too, alongside those with grammaticala and othr errors.

I am convinced that every literary agent has this spinning wheel within easy reach.

Click on the image to view it in full size.

I’m sure there are 1000000 more reasons other than the ones here. Maybe I’ll come up with a second spinning wheel or something else another day, hehe.

If you have anything to add — please do. Knowledge grows when shared…

PS: I used the very pretty color wheel from vuDAT.

Usually, I can sound a lot more fired-up than I do in this post (I should be writing this as a footnote, since I *have* finished writing the post, but I’ve a strange habit of placing footnotes at the beginning, from time to time).

What can I say — I’m tired today, lol. But I’m keeping my steady pace.

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I’ll try to compile the bunch of e-mails I’ve received from literary agents so far. Those were replies to my e-queries (most of the time, you don’t attach samples of your manuscript to an e-query. You pitch your idea first, by smashing your entire book’s plot into, say, 3-4 short paragraphs).

This one was from Ms. ***** ****** — she had requested for my full manuscript in August 2007. I had this in the mail a couple of days ago.

I provided you with 60,000+ words plus to peruse at your own time, and that’s the best you could come up with?! And your scrap of a rejection letter back to me couldn’t even be free from errors!

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