How many times do I have to check my email? I wait with a nervous heart flutter for the next agent, knowing they will reject my manuscript because either my story isn't right for them or it isn't marketable. But they are wrong; of course I say this with an all knowing knowledge. The crazy thing is, I do know when I first started sending my work to them, I shouldn't have. And to the ones who were brave enough to ask for more and ended with a sorry, not for them rejection letter, I must admit they were right, in the beginning. But now after many revisions and many hours writing and rewriting, I believe it is exactly right for them and marketable. Yes, it is my opinion, but it is also my manuscript and I have much faith in it if they do not.
I have worried with anticipation over each sentence, exactly as I did with each of my four kids as they one by one tackled the art of walking. It is a personal process; in an odd way it is my new child, and I love every bit of it. So I patiently wait as I query about every agent out there, hoping that the one will finally say, "I love it."
So, what keeps me going when no one seems to want my story you ask? It is the faithful that have read it and love it. It is the ones who have been forewarned of its hopeful future and can't wait because they like the idea or the type of characters that are involved. But most importantly, it is because of my own love for these characters and their predicaments, their journey that twists and turns, and the final outcome when all is where it is supposed to be.
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