Sunday, February 16, 2014

Evil Editor Classics


The Future of Evil?

We seem to have a recurring problem: not enough queries or openings in the queues to legally refer to them as "queues." Do I have to offer an incentive to get writers to submit? A weekly drawing among all submitters, winner gets an Evil Editor coffee mug? The graph below shows the number of visitors to Evil Editor's blog over its entire lifespan. You'll note that I've labeled a number of spots where the number spiked and I've also labeled a few troughs.




Spike........Explanation
....A...........EE agrees to critique query letters for free.
....B...........EE agrees to critique openings.
....C...........EE posts photo of naked woman.
....D...........EE posts cartoon depicting an agent being tortured.
....E...........EE takes day off; Evil Jr. does blog.
....G...........EE wins 1st Nobel Prize for Blogging.
....H...........Dominos provides free beer and pizza on EE's blog.
....K............
TV Guide announces EE to compete on Dancing with the Stars.

Trough....Explanation
....F............Miss Snark retires; Blogosphere in mourning.
....I.............Twitter gets hot; readers can now be entertained in 140 characters.
....J............Twitter credited with world peace. Blogs suddenly irrelevant.
....L............EE posts confusing graph instead of useful post.


Evil Twit
The writing appears to be on the wall. For Evil Editor to remain relevant, he must transform himself into Evil Twit. Critique the first 140 characters of people's novels. This may seem ridiculous, but some agents already are accepting only tweeted submissions. Hell, Hannah Rogers accepts only the first sentence. It's what the world is coming to, and if we don't adapt we'll be left behind.

However, before shifting to Twitter, I'd better confirm that there's a demand for critiques of the first 140 characters. So, submit as a comment to this post the first 140 characters (or fewer) of your current WIP. We'll see how it goes.

10 comments:

Mister Furkles said...

Fire Robinson set his backpack on the rock outcropping. He looked down from the cliff to the river below. There it was, about half a mile up

Dave Fragments said...

“Where the hell is that truck? Thirty stops and nothing. Twenty-four hours and nothing. Pull over, dammit, pull over,” Chad yelled

Kregger said...

Drone reached down and caressed the small of her back where sweat beaded and dampened his finger tips. Mara’s arms and legs intertwined with his.

Dave Fragments said...

Shame on you evil man

Anonymous said...

Heather was twelve years old the last time she saw her grandmother. She had a vivid memory of her playing the piano, long fingers fluttering over the keys. Heather never

CavalierdeNuit said...

"Ow!" E said. The gold chain around his neck had ripped out some of his back hair. "No pain no gain," the Lilliputian man beside him said.

(How many queries in need of EE's pen are swarming around out there? I think some potential minions are confused because of the anonymous nature of this blog, but if they took time to read the archives they'd know it was very useful.)

(My 140 character submission is bogus. There is no story attached to it as of now.)

khazar-khum said...

First he took away my writing exercises, then my cartoons, and now he wants to take

Unknown said...

I roll over to check if the milk is frozen. It is. It’s going to be a bad day.

Maybe, just maybe, I’m hallucinating.

PLaF said...

It waits there in the darkness, just a little further than the reach of my eyes. Like a glimmer on the thin line of the horizon or a shout

Drew Dillon said...

Offhand, I’d have to say that moving dead bodies wouldn’t be my dream job. Not that I’ve ever harbored any ambition to be a grave robber