He buries the recommendation a bit, but AP is absolutely right: the blog Query Letters I Love is, indeed, inspired.
Yes, it is, as the Germans call it, pleasure at the expense of another's misfortune. But the pleasure is oh so sweet. I would go so far as to say that it's the most fun I've had on the internet with my pants up.
Read the archives. Read every last entry. If you're at all like me, you may well fall out of your desk chair a few times.
My favorite right now:
"Freebird"That's a movie?Logline: A recovering drug addict tells stories to her young son about a family of egrets living in a field outside of their trailer. These animations reveal her experiences as a Southern rock music groupie, and help the boy understand his relationship to a deceased rock and roll legend.
Go! Quit perusing this boring blog and go!
Posted by FLOG at December 12, 2004 3:12 AMI blew about two hours on that blog last week. Great stuff but I feel horrible for reading it. I'm the last person that should be laughing at people for penning mutant Viking dramas set in Hawaii and starring an all robot cast. I've written two of them myself.
Posted by: Brandon at December 13, 2004 10:46 AMWow, I felt mildly guilty for spending a whole 20 minutes there. But don't worry, I plan to exhaust the archives very soon.
Posted by: WWB at December 13, 2004 11:10 AMIn regards to all the talk about anti-Japanese propaganda, what's up with the "Bambi on 'roids" letter?
"When a deer crashes her wedding, a jappy New York advertising executive must go into the Connecticut woods..."
Jappy? What's that supposed to mean? Eh? EH!?!?
Posted by: Sho at December 13, 2004 10:28 PMI believe "jappy" in that context referred to the term "Jewish American princess," which is the other derogatory meaning of "Jap."
See, we WASPs aren't always picking on your kind of Jap. Sometimes it's other Japs.
Stereotypes for all!
Posted by: FLOG™ at December 14, 2004 2:49 PMThere should never be any discrimination when it comes to handing out stereotypes. Yay for diversity!
Posted by: Sho at December 14, 2004 7:17 PMWWB & Brandon:
You may, as writers, feel a tinge of guilt as you laugh at the ineptitude of other writers. But why? The sole reason these queries are funny is that readers find them inept. If they were good ideas they wouldn't be funny, and no one would like that blog. They shoot their own feet.
Posted by: FLOG™ at December 15, 2004 2:28 AM