Agent
It's time to start looking for an agent. If I start looking now, I might actually have one by the time I finish Book 1. That would be ideal. The general consensus is that publishing houses prefer receiving polished manuscripts from agents, not authors. I suppose that makes it less likely to be a waste of their time. I can't imagine the number of manuscripts that arrive in a major publisher's mail every day. How many people think that they are a novelist simply because they finished a book? How many manuscripts make it all the way to the publishers' only to be opened and discarded after ten lines of text were read?
How many tell themselves, "if I just finish it, I'll be so far ahead of the game." I told myself that for a long time, but now that I'm close to actually finishing it, I find that writing the last sentence is relatively unimportant. Sure, it's a great starting point, but having 250,000 words is much less than have 100,000 well-written words, which is my goal. That will make the difference for me.
I have 37,000 words currently, in the first book alone, but I am writing at an alarming rate. I will finish by January of 2010 if I keep my current pace. But I am finding that as I force myself to write everyday, the words come more and more easily to me. I may need an agent faster than even I realize.
I've put out feelers for agents with some of my more well connected colleagues, but I have yet to hear any positive feedback. I'm not disappointed or discouraged. It's just the process and I'm ready to work it. I want to avoid being the author that submits an easily discarded manuscript.
How many tell themselves, "if I just finish it, I'll be so far ahead of the game." I told myself that for a long time, but now that I'm close to actually finishing it, I find that writing the last sentence is relatively unimportant. Sure, it's a great starting point, but having 250,000 words is much less than have 100,000 well-written words, which is my goal. That will make the difference for me.
I have 37,000 words currently, in the first book alone, but I am writing at an alarming rate. I will finish by January of 2010 if I keep my current pace. But I am finding that as I force myself to write everyday, the words come more and more easily to me. I may need an agent faster than even I realize.
I've put out feelers for agents with some of my more well connected colleagues, but I have yet to hear any positive feedback. I'm not disappointed or discouraged. It's just the process and I'm ready to work it. I want to avoid being the author that submits an easily discarded manuscript.