Ugh…coming back from vacation is incredibly brutal. Just spent a wonderful week up in Maine with my family, hanging out at the beach, riding roller coasters and writing whenever I got the chance (read: whenever I wasn’t whipping my cousins with keys, eating peppermint stick ice cream, or hunting down Moxie). I did get some writing done, but I also got a rejection from The Blair Partnership.
Le sigh.
Anyway, I have a few new agencies I’m looking at, so I’m re-working one section of my novel, then I’ll send out submissions (including the first three chapters!) to the Stimola Literary Studio, McIntosh & Otis, and Tor Books. I’m also looking at Writers House, and would be very interested in Christopher Little if their submissions weren’t currently closed. Hopefully they’ll open back up again soon…though unfortunately they’re probably inundated because of the J.K. Rowling revelations.
Meanwhile, I’m getting some good writing done. I’m completely re-writing a section of my book, as I mentioned above. It’s turning out very well, though I do have some misgivings if I should swap the jobs of two minor characters.
Eh bien…
I think that the most important realization (or re-realization) I had over the past week came from something my cousin said. She was talking about people who do what they love for a living, and wondering if eventually the passion disappears and it just becomes work. I said that it probably depends on the person and the calling, but that I felt sure that some people could pursue their dream and love it indefinitely. We went on to talk about what I’d like to do for a living, and it just served to reaffirm that what I want more than anything is to be a writer. As I tell pretty much everyone, I want to be J.B. Fletcher when I grow up.
So I guess that’s it for tonight! Back to the grind tomorrow. The only silver lining in sight is that means I’ll be back to lunchtime writing/editing, as well.
Good night, Cabot Cove!
Working Title: Bryn & Mer: Traditor
Word Count: 5,737 written this week
Writing Mode: Disappointed, but reinvigorated
