I heard from a friend about a site for getting feedback on query letters. In this case, not editorial or agent feedback, but just feedback from other writers… very much geared to be very short and to the point “yes, I’d want to read more”, “no I wouldn’t” but with the option of adding a brief comment if desired.
In theory, one can get a lot of responses on a number of queries and get some kind of idea as to which would be most effective. Although, at the moment, I doubt the site is big enough for that to work right. Still, some feedback is better than no feedback… or is it?
I put up a query for something none of my friends had read yet, fudging all information but the plot. And I actually got a comment on it. One which makes no sense to me. So now I’m fretting over how the reader could possibly have gotten that out of what I wrote, instead of doing anything useful. Arg!
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