You know on The Voice, singers have only 90 seconds to wow Adam Levine and get him to turn that chair? Well, it’s the same with writing. You have about 90 seconds on page one to wow an agent/publisher/mentor/reader and get them to turn their attention to your manuscript. I learnt this in Pitch Wars (and a few other forms of…
Month: August 2017
When you feel like giving up, hold on.
On Friday I decided to quit. No more surfing for me. It’s too hard. Maybe it is because I watched the JBay Open where the surfing was at the level of the gods and showed me where I was on a scale of zero to poop. Or maybe it was because my leash got snagged between my toes just before…
Melissa A Volker 