Comments on: Tips from Bob Mayer – #1 http://www.learntowritefiction.com/tips-from-bob-mayer-1/ tools, systems and strategies to help you write your novel Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:30:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cheryl http://www.learntowritefiction.com/tips-from-bob-mayer-1/comment-page-1/#comment-469 Cheryl Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:11:37 +0000 http://www.learntowritefiction.com/?p=72#comment-469 Writing the query letter before finishing the story... what a good idea. It would definitely help me make my story more coherent. It's kind of rambling around, lost in sub-plots, at the moment. Your story idea sounds very interesting. A good example of the one-sentence idea. Writing the query letter before finishing the story… what a good idea. It would definitely help me make my story more coherent. It’s kind of rambling around, lost in sub-plots, at the moment.

Your story idea sounds very interesting. A good example of the one-sentence idea.

]]> By: Eliza Wyatt http://www.learntowritefiction.com/tips-from-bob-mayer-1/comment-page-1/#comment-468 Eliza Wyatt Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:47:35 +0000 http://www.learntowritefiction.com/?p=72#comment-468 I'm not a fan of the rhetorical questions as story premises. Even so, figuring this out is a good exercise; just like writing a query letter well before my book was finished really focused the plot. So. Here's mine. "A political hostage meddles in politics when she protects her father from her vengeful uncle." I’m not a fan of the rhetorical questions as story premises. Even so, figuring this out is a good exercise; just like writing a query letter well before my book was finished really focused the plot.

So. Here’s mine.

“A political hostage meddles in politics when she protects her father from her vengeful uncle.”

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