It's the perfect time of year to reflect on our
accomplishments and revisit goals that may or may not have been met. My goal for
2014 was to take my rewritten YA Sci-fi and find an agent equally excited about
it. It was new and shiny--I'd raked over every word, hooked every chapter end, and
added short term goals for my MC to ramp up the tension. (Look for a later post
from me about over editing) I knew this manuscript forward, backward, and
sideways. The world I'd created completely sucked me in.
I've been very open about my query process...the partial and
full requests...the rejections...and the LaLa Land some of my submissions fell
into. I fully intended to send my queries in batches, tweak things as needed,
and to not stop until I reached one hundred agents. I have several dear friends
who submitted over sixty, seventy even eighty queries before they received agent
representation so I knew going into it that it might be a long haul. But here I
am, only a little over halfway through my goal and I've found my heart just
isn't into it.
This: "Anything that takes me away from their lives--even if it's something as simple as researching new prospects for my Sci-fi, puts me into a tailspin."
ReplyDeleteYES. You've put into words what I've felt so often. All these characters, worlds and plots spinning in our heads. I've been at odds recently about where to put my time and energy as well. I think you just have to go where your passion is taking you. <3