When it comes to CVs, I had no idea what it meant up until this week. Cover letters, I had a general understanding of. I did, after all, have to write something of the sort when applying to colleges and universities. As for queries, they have been my nightmare fuel (or at least the reason I've been losing more hair) for well over four years now.
I've spent more time looking up how to appeal to agents and editors and how to write the perfect query letter (often harping on the Successful Query Letter posts on writersdigest.com) than I have actually finished writing. (I've learned my lesson by now, I try to spend more time writing than I do doing "research".)
But if I ever had to apply for a desk job or internship at a publishing house, I'd be SOL pretty damn fast. My resume for day jobs came from a Microsoft Word template. My job experience has included theme parks and three months at a book store chain. I'm about to start the everlasting trope of being a waitress by day, student by day and sleepy writer by night. My issue is plain and simple. I have no f*&%ing idea on what to put in my resume. I guess I'm in a catch-22 sort of thing.
I've written plenty of blurbs and snippets and summaries for query letters but my biggest concern is finding someone to help me understand what I need to fix and fine-tune before sending it out. And online writing services that charge upwards of $30 are out of the question for a student who's current bank account tells me I've got just under ten bucks in it and my current weekly salary is a big fat zero.
I guess that's why I'm in this class, isn't it?
I've spent more time looking up how to appeal to agents and editors and how to write the perfect query letter (often harping on the Successful Query Letter posts on writersdigest.com) than I have actually finished writing. (I've learned my lesson by now, I try to spend more time writing than I do doing "research".)
But if I ever had to apply for a desk job or internship at a publishing house, I'd be SOL pretty damn fast. My resume for day jobs came from a Microsoft Word template. My job experience has included theme parks and three months at a book store chain. I'm about to start the everlasting trope of being a waitress by day, student by day and sleepy writer by night. My issue is plain and simple. I have no f*&%ing idea on what to put in my resume. I guess I'm in a catch-22 sort of thing.
I've written plenty of blurbs and snippets and summaries for query letters but my biggest concern is finding someone to help me understand what I need to fix and fine-tune before sending it out. And online writing services that charge upwards of $30 are out of the question for a student who's current bank account tells me I've got just under ten bucks in it and my current weekly salary is a big fat zero.
I guess that's why I'm in this class, isn't it?