Dug this out of Miss Snark’s blog, which, even though it is no longer in operation, still has a bus-load of precious writing gems waiting to be mined from the archives.
http://misssnark.blogspot.com/2007/04/yea-this-works.html
I figured this post was particularly applicable since it’s the process I’m caught up in right now…er…minus all of the gin of course.
Right now I’ve got about twenty-something queries floating about in both the postal service and cyberspace. These are for both short stories and a couple of my novels, specifically the ones that are the most polished and, in my opinion, the most unique and intriguing. I’ve had a few false alarms with sample page requests and all that, but other than those nibbles, nothing yet. As I wait for a solid bite there, one hand on the fishing pole, I’ve also turned one eye to a new manuscript and am about 10k words into it and enjoying it so far.
That’s often the measure by which I track a work in progress. Not necessarily how fast I’m getting it written, but how much I’m enjoying the process. Because if I can’t have fun with the world and characters that are fleshing out on the page, then the likelihood is the reader won’t have fun with them either.
So, I’m off to see what waits for me around this blind corner…
I see that smile.