Sending a Manuscript
One day you came to a realization
that… “I want to be a writer”. Then, you get to read a love story or a romance
novel and say to yourself, “Hey, I can write one of these.” I know, I know how
you feel because it happened to me. I realized way back then that I want to
write a romance novel.
To those who have been reading
PHR novels, on the first few pages of the book you can see there that Precious
Pages Corp. is inviting all aspiring Tagalog Romance Writers to prepare a
manuscript with 23,000 to 24,000 words divided in 10 chapters. Once you’re done
writing your manuscript, the first thing that comes to your mind is to send it
right away. I’ve been there, the moment I finished writing, I composed an email,
attached my work and hit “send.”
NO. That’s wrong. After
completing the required word count, what we’re supposed to do is to give our MS
a “vacation.” It is advised not to read our work for a few weeks or months. The
objective is to make it “new” in our own eyes as if we are to read somebody
else’s book. This activity will help us be more critical of our work as a
writer and will make us less “attached” to our book. In this case, editing will
be easier. Editing your own work will mean removing unnecessary scenes and
dialogues. Even, removing chapters and worse starting all over again.
You see, before we send our work
and expect an editor to read it, we must be happy reading our own work first.
We must believe in the beauty of the story we made. To all of aspiring writers,
who are sending me queries on how to send their manuscript…Give your MS a
break. Later on, revisit your work and edit it.
When you think you’re ready to
send it, compose an email with the subject: Manuscript for Evaluation. Here’s
the email address of PHR:
ed2rialstaff@yahoo.com.
You’ll receive an email reply that an editor has received your MS. You may also
text your name, title of manuscript and subject of your email to: 09109854715.
Thank you for visiting. Happy writing!
