Another first

I have another partial request sitting in my mail box today! You will pardon me while I take a moment to dance around the house with kiddo, making us both dizzy little creatures.

However, this is the first one that has asked to receive the pages via snail mail! Hmmm... While I could probably get away with printing it off on the company printer at the Real Job (tm), I'm pretty sure that's not the best way to go about things.

So once again, I shall be utilizing the Kinkos down the block, and their super-wonderful "you upload it, we print it" strategy. Seriously, if I could kiss the person at Kinkos who thought that up, I would.

And, always thinking ahead and thinking positive, I shall print out a receipt to be held as a tax deduction against future earnings from writing. See, lookit me be a planner!

In writing news, I again did double my word count goal. I finished chapter 3 of Project 3 and got a good starting chunk on chapter 4. I think I'm really getting into this!

And it is Monday once again...

Not a lot to report today.

I did get one rejection from my rather scant list of queries, but it just doesn't seem to have the devastation power now that I've had a partial rejected first.

I blew my word count goal out of the water today, though not all of it was on Project 3. I also did a bit of writing for my WoW family. There's something quite relaxing about writing things in an established world that I don't have to constantly maintain in my head.

And here in a few minutes, I'm leaving to go fight with the eye doctor AGAIN. (Yes, I know the glasses are made to the prescription he wrote, but that doesn't change the fact that I can't SEE!)

Here we go again

Proving that literary agents NEVER sleep and do not take weekends off(something that I've long suspected), I received another request for a partial today. So, pages are sent, and per their website, I potentially have a two-month wait ahead of me as they review my submission.

Now...do I go wake up the sleeping hubby NOW to gush to him, or let him snooze a bit longer?

A moment from real life

So, tonight, the hubby announces "I am going to hide from kiddo!" and goes dashing into the back of the house. The following conversation goes like this.

Me: Oh no, you better go find Daddy!
Kiddo: He hides really good.
*kiddo remains seated at computer*
Me: Aren't you going to go find daddy?
Kiddo: Nah
Me: You're going to leave him back there forever?
Kiddo: Yeah
Me: But what if he's back there all alone, and he has no food or water?
Kiddo: Then he'll be hungry and thirsty.

At which point, hubby gave up hiding and had to come out and watch me collapse laughing.

I love my heartless little offspring.

So much for goals

Three days into my 500-words-per-day goal, and I've missed the goal for the last two days. (not to be confused with missing the gaol, which is what I typed first, and seems to be rather a good thing).

I would actually have to write 900 words tomorrow to make up for the 400 words I've been short these last two days. In my defense, I've taken on new duties at the Real Job(tm) and it's something that actually requires some thought and concentration. (oddly enough, I'm enjoying it, save for the lack of free writing time)

Still no responses to the three queries outstanding, but I was figuring a two-week wait, so I'm not worrying about it yet.

Goals

I've decided that I need to write 500 words a day. It doesn't matter what on, just...500 words must go onto paper (screen).

I met today's goal and surpassed it by over 400. Go me!

Still waiting on queries. No more responses yet.

Milestones abound

So I have gone from my first query, to my first partial request, to my first rejection in the space of just a few days. Talk about roller coaster!

Yes, the agent with the partial opted to pass. And I'm sad, of course, but I know that it's all part and parcel with the publishing game. The agent had several nice things to say, and hopefully someone else will be interested.

I think I'm going to stick with the queries I have out at the moment, and see what responses I get back before sending any more out. No one says I have to do this all at once, anyway.

If it looks like I'm getting partial requests that turn into rejections, though, I think that's going to speak pretty loudly to my writing skill in general. And that's depressing.