by Christine | Writing
I am no longer over the moon when I get a request from an agent or an editor, as I’ve been rejected a lot this year and the bloom is off that particular rose. However, it does put a tiny spring into my step for the rest of the day.
One of the professional organizations I belong to had a blog pitch session with an editor of a highly regarded publishing company. While I didn’t totally wow said editor, I did manage to impress enough that I was asked for a partial. Rather than rush to send the partial last night, I did some thinking, rewrote the query letter, sent it to a friend who has not read the book, and finally got the okay on the query. So this morning (after another read-through of that all-important first chapter) the partial will be sent. Officially off my plate and out of my memory. On to the next project.
So for a hard slog of a year, it’s not all rejection, all the time. Which is enough to put a smile on my face.
by Christine | Life, Writing
Just when I was getting used to, and loving, the cooler weather we were enjoying in So Cal, Mother Nature turns up the heat. It’s close to 100 in my little valley and I’m less than thrilled.
On the productive side, however, my office is air conditioned, which is encouraging me to write. Plus, my windows computer’s internet is down, which means I can’t play Flowerz (don’t ask me why I love that game, but I do), and since hubby put in a Blu-ray machine last night, our cable box gave up the ghost which means I can’t watch TV in the other air conditioned room. So that leaves writing on my beloved new MacBook Pro.
I really want to finish up the play I’m working on, and I’ve got, minimum, 15 pages to go. I am a dialog diva – I really am good at it, and I’m enjoying the all-dialog, all the time of writing a play. My guess is it’ll take me two more writing sessions to get it finished, then two or three days of rewriting before sending it out to readers.
But if I don’t start, I can’t finish…
