Life has settled for me. The wedding band is firmly on my finger. My Pitchwars entry has been submitted. My apartment could use a good scrub, but that's a project for another day. I thought I would enjoy the nothingness of not being able to work on DUODECIM, but all of the constant working and scrambling the last few months affected me more than I thought it would. I'm bored. So what are my options?
So that's where I'm at. I called this blog Adventures in Writing, so I'm going to document those adventures, big and small. Stay tuned or don't! I'll still be here.
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Hello! My name is Mads, and welcome to the blog I'm going to get better at using. If you're here, it probably means you found this link pinned to the top of my twitter. If that's not how you wound up here, then keep the mystery alive. Either way, welcome! This is my bio for the lovely Brenda Drake's Pitchwars where I'm hoping to be the lucky mentee of one of the many fantastic mentors participating this year. I'm a first time mentee, so I've been learning something new every day, and in the end, isn't that really the point? Who am I? I suppose the best place to start would be talking about who I am. How else will you know if I'm the mentee of your dreams? First things first, I'm pansexual and genderfluid, and my pronouns are they/them. If you slip up and use her/hers or him/his, that's okay! I'll pretty much look up and respond to anything. I list those identities first because they play a huge role in why I write. I read everything under the sun as a little kid, but I never quite resonated with the main characters. They were all missing something. I didn't realize I wasn't straight/cis until I met my partner, and once I did, it felt like my entire life made sense, as did why I never saw myself in the books I read. I wonder every day if I would have discovered myself sooner if I read a book about someone who was pansexual, or genderqueer, or both. I don't want future LGBTQ+ kids to spend their lives wondering either, which is why I started writing. I'm now a sort-of adult with a BA in English from SUNY Cortland, living on Long Island with my cat Zack, and my inspirational (and shiny new) life partner. Perks of picking me as a mentee? I'll send you lots of pictures of this little dragon: (I'm not above bribery. You'll get a cute picture every day if you pick me!) That's enough about me. Time to get to the good stuff. What's the book about? So glad you asked! DUODECIM is a YA Diverse Fantasy coming in at 87,000 words. To save on space, you can click HERE for a blurb about the plot and HERE for a breakdown of my characters. What I want to do is give you a run through of all the things that makes my MS unique and special that don't fit neatly into a query letter. Reading DUODECIM, you can expect to find:
You will NOT find:
A few more things:
Mentoring me means having a mentee who will work tirelessly and endlessly to improve their MS. I know tht you're all mentors for a reason. You've done your work and earned your way to where you are, and I want to learn from your experiences. I'm open to feedback and criticism, and while I cry at the drop of a hat, I'm never going to quit! Here's few more things that make me me outside of being a writer:
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