Your first draft is not supposed to be good.
Say it with me: your first draft is NOT supposed to be good.
It's supposed to be messy and contradictory and full of plot holes.
Look at every book you love on your shelf and realize that exactly ZERO of them started out that way.
They all started out as rough drafts riddled with issues that got ironed out in revision.
So trust the process and keep going. Your draft doesn't have to be good yet — it just has to be on the page.
@laporterbooks I sent my first query early August 2025, but only sent 12 before pulling back to revise. I did this on and off before fully diving back in at the end of March 2026!
Thank you all SO MUCH for the love on my #agented announcement! The online writing community has been so kind and supportive. Wishing every #querying author the best of luck out there✨🫶
The query letter and first five pages of my #revpit winning adult contemporary manuscript, FINDING GRAVITY, is ready for your review here: https://t.co/uohy4SBtjT
#amquerying#writingcommunity
Heyyyy friends, who's looking forward to the #revpit showcase next week? I had a great time reworking FINDING GRAVITY with Nicole Frail and I can't wait to share it with you all!
#writingcommunity#amquerying#contemporaryfiction
AND, we're LIVE! ✨
I'm officially in my Substack era, on staff with my fellow Word Witches, as we so affectionately call ourselves. Subscribe now for a FREEBIE—our handy, dandy 11-page querying survival guide. #amquerying 🏹
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FLOWERS FROM VERNON
YOU’VE GOT MAIL x ACT YOUR AGE, EVE BROWN
🌸Hidden identities
🌹Enemies to lovers
🌺BIPOC cast
🌻Female friendships
🌼Male friendships
🪷Rom Com
🪻Musicial x Writer
#questpit#q#querying#romance#bipoc#NA
An Editor’s Guide for my Romantasy!
‼️ LARGE Booktok Interest ‼️
🌊 Last of her kind w amnesia
🔥 Zutara coded
⚔️ Enemies to lovers
✨ Slow Burn
💔 Forbidden Love
👑 Knight x Princess
⏳ Painfully Slow Burn
🩸 TOUCH HER/HIM & DIE
#QuestPit#AG#A#F
A plus-size baddie dog sits to survive after her ex leaves her—then she meets a guy in the personal care aisle who’s everything her ex wasn’t: loyal, patient & in desperate need of a dog sitter…which might just ruin her plan to swear off love forever 🐾🌿
#QuestPit#A#R#Q
A burlesque dancer is hired to choreograph a socialite’s wedding, falling for the enigmatic brother, but ends up in the spotlight of a revenge plot where she’ll have to put on her best act yet: save the man she loves or lose him like she lost her brother. #AgentsGuide#QuestPit
What do you get when you cross an award-winning cidermaker with zero business sense and a finance bro with a toddler's palate?
CIDER SEASON | A 75K word upmarket contemporary rom-com | 2026 #revpit winner
#questpit#q#a#u#r#writingcommunity#amquerying
When a designer drug that lets the rich edit memories sweeps through a coastal state split between luxury and neglect the poor become its testing ground. #questpit#t#u#d
SAINTBORN | 93k | FANTASY ROMANCE
AVATAR x SHADOWHUNTERS
In a world where the Saints are the source of all magic and power, a powerless thief discovers she is the heir to a Saint that shouldn't exist—and becomes the truth an empire will destroy to protect.
#Q#RF#QuestPit
#questpit Second Chances at Sunset | 80k words
Sons of Anarchy meets small town romance
🖤 Dark themes
🖤 DV Survivor x Freshly Released Felon
🖤 Found Family
🖤 They share a duplex wall
🖤 Buried Secrets + Trauma
#R#Q#A