A Million Years Later...

Miss me?

I apologize for the lack of posting, but once again, I was sick. I had that wonderful stomach bug a few weeks back, then my husband's boss decided to flail his germs around the office which of course, got my hubby sick, who passed it on to me. Me, having horrible immunity, gets it for about a week instead of the standard two days. On top of that, I had a huge case of insomnia. No matter how much Nyquil I took, I would not knock out. One night (er-day) I was literally up until 10am. Yeah, a bad week. I'm feeling much better now, still got that annoying cough and sniffles, but that's tolerable.

I have done no revisions this past week, and that was on purpose. I was so out of it, and miserable, I knew if I did any, they would only be half-assed because I just didn't have it in me to give it my full attention. Today, I am getting back into it. I need to get it done before I get more partial requests or fulls.

As I've mentioned before, the ending has completely changed and definitely for the better. The previous one seemed a bit rushed. I think because I had spent two years writing it (would have been shorter but I was also working full time), I felt like the story was dragging when in reality, I was just getting tired of writing and rereading it (tip: write the whole book, THEN edit it, don't do it as you go along, you will get tired of it really fast!).

I also got another rejection today but to be honest, I am not surprised. It was with my old sample chapters, so I am assuming it's because of the lack of conflict in the first few pages and well, maybe she just didn't like the idea. I went out on a whim with this one too, one of those, "when in doubt, query," things. I just have to keep reminding myself that my agent is out there somewhere. It just sucks cause there are still a few I am waiting to hear from that I absolutely would love to work with, but they have the old query or the old sample pages. Needless, to say, I am not too optimistic.

I have also decided to get a full time temp job. I am going back to Canada in July for a few weeks to see family and help out a camp I help out at every year and some extra moola would be nice. That, and I won't be home alone with my thoughts anymore wondering and obsessing about if my book will ever make it.

That's about it for now. Off I go to finish revising before I get a call from the temp agency telling me they found me work!