It has begun...someone pound on the drums for me...

I've finished "Chimera."  This is the first time I've publicly written the title anywhere.  Now I'm querying agents, and they want to know if I have a website and blog.  Um...yes?  

I do!

But I also have a forty-hour a week job and add ten hours to commute.  BUT...*happy dance*...my last day at the day job will be JULY 1st!!!  They offered early retirement and blah blah blah, and I jumped on it. 😁

Now, instead of killing myself on the weekends, working 9-7 in my office, The Sanctuary, I'll be able to kill myself five or six days a week!  You have no idea how excited I am!  

I started "Chimera" on 2/11/22 and finished it on 5/8/22 with 65,795 words.  I only now looked at the dates.  I use index cards with the date, the words I start and finish.  I wrote this beautiful book while working my full-time day job.

Imagine what my short ass can do simply focusing on the writing!  I'm not a swooning chick, but I may swoon.  😂

Basically...I'm back.  I'm blowing the dust off this bad boy and making it a priority.  

Damn.  I am excited!!!

Always writing*

Puzzle Pieces

When I write, I have a "click" when I'm going in the right direction.  I hear it in my head.  Pieces have to fit juuuuuussssstttttt so.  No problem.  But that goes with a lot of other things in my life.  It's mostly intuition.  A quiet sense of knowing exactly what I should be doing.  And it's comforting.

I've finished a couple of works since the beginning of the year, and I'm looking at agents and publishers.  And they're looking at me.  A decade ago, you might receive an incredibly brisk dismissal and that was the end.  The agents now seem to be kinder and gentler.  I thank social media for some of that.  Word gets around quickly.

Some of the rejections are simply that the agent didn't feel strongly enough, and I respect that.  I don't want anyone half-assed representing my work.  I don't.  No one else is going to, either.  It's a partnership.

I've gone on agent sites where I didn't like the font and immediately crossed them off.  Didn't like some of the layout or colors with other ones.  Too utilitarian.  Several little things that I could not see myself working with. 

But I have hope that there will be a fit.  Pretty little puzzle pieces connecting in my writing journey.  Because I won't stop until I have that.  And if it means self-publishing, I've done it.  And I enjoy it.  It's not like that's a threat.  It's simply another direction.

I'll continue to produce my work while trying to find someone to help distribute.  That'll never cease.  My heart and soul require the writing.  And isn't that the best?

Always writing*