The Online Writing Community Acronym Dictionary

There is a beautiful online writing community that I have recently found and am quickly falling in love with. It is amazing to connect to other writers, editors, and book lovers! I have been visiting blogs, vlogs, and twitter feeds just basking in all the great information and support that is available. But there is a bit of a secret language going on in these places, so I decided to create a dictionary to help out any other newbies like me who may feel a little lost.

General Terms:

ARC: Advance Reader Copy. This is when readers get their grubby little mitts on a book before it's officially released (the lucky ducks!)

CNR: Closed No Response (I have also heard people call this: Closed No Rejection?). This is a term used during querying when an agent doesn't respond to your query at all and you decide to close out the "open" status on the query knowing they will likely never respond.

CP: Critique Partners. These are the people who help make your rough work into awesome work and kindly point out which darlings need slaying. And vice versa, because turn about is fair play.

ER: Email rejection. When an agent emails a rejection to your query. (Be strong!)

EQ: Email query. When you sent a query via email to an agent, then crossed your fingers, toes and eyes and prayed for a good response.

FR: Full request. When an agent you queried requests to read your full manuscript (Congratulations!)

MC: Main Character

MS: Manuscript

POV: Point of View. The point of view your story is written from

PR: Partial Request. When an agent you queried requests to read a portion of your manuscript (congratulations! Here's hoping for an upgrade to a full after the partial!)

QT: Querytracker.com. If you are planning to query agents, ever, visit this website. You can read up on the agents, hear other author's experiences, and (you guessed it!) track the status of your own queries.

WIP: Work in progress. This is whatever project you are current working on (aka: your baby)

Age Ranges:

A: Adult

MG: Middle Grade

NA: New Adult

YA: Young Adult

Genres:

CB: Chapter Book

NF: Non-fiction

PB: Picture Book

R: Romance
SFF: SciFi (Science Fiction)/Fantasy
UF: Urban Fantasy

I'm sure this isn't exhaustive, but I hope it is helpful! Let me know what I missed...perhaps a part two will be in order!

Happy writing!

Currently Reading: Enders by Lissa Price
Currently Listening to: House Carpenter by Nickel Creek