Regular blog followers know I’m just beginning to query my latest shiny manuscript. So I thought I’d interject some humor for others who are, or have ever been a part of the query-go-round. Enjoy!
Day in the writing life: Querying Phase
- Morning coffee
- Open special query email
- Gasp when you see 10 new messages
- Swear when you see they’re not from agents
- Check OTHER non-query email account
- Keep query email window open
- Check it again
- Scan new deals on Publishers Marketplace
- Check query email again
- Check out Guide to Literary Agents blog
- Did the email ding?
- Check again
- Swear at your over active imagination. No wait! You need that.
- What day is it? Blog
- Tweet
- Check email
- Sip coffee
- Check other, other email account
- Head over to Query Tracker
- Obsessively check for agent updates in the comment section
- New message!
- Heart flutters
- Comment pingback, awesome
- Respond to comment. I love blogging
- Check out Absolute Write
- Check email
- Open your manuscript
- Read the opening chapters
- See an error on page seven
- Why do commas FORSAKE me?!
- Email dings
- Rejection
- Expletive
- Re-read query letter
- Decide your writing sucks
- More coffee
- Mooore coffee
- Check email
- Check twitter
- Chat with writerly friends
- Check email
- Check sent mail
- Laugh manically
- I must be crazy
- Check email again
- Stomach flips
- New message alert
- Prepare for the worst
- Blink.
- FULL REQUEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All this before lunchtime… Hope your weekend is filled with requests, writing, reading, laughter, and sparkling butterflies. XO
AACK! YES. I hate the check email compulsion .It cannot be ignored! LOL on the overactive imagination quip. HA.
So … is this a non-fictional rundown, my unidextrous twinkie? You got a FULL REQUEST? SQUEEE! You ROCK.
I think it comes as part of the “being a writer” package, lol! This may in fact be a non-fictional rundown…*whispers there might be a number eight in front of that last one* *crosses fingers*