Oh My God! Did I actually accomplish something I can OFFICIALLY check off the Grand Master To Do List? The answer: yes! As of some time mid-afternoon today, we officially have a pretty rockin' query letter! Thank God!
I'm not even going to lie; I do feel better. And we can now move on to bigger and better things...my novel! She needs one last big-ish round of edits. I have a plan of attack, though. And it involves starting from the end and working my way backward. This plan also involves me actually writing a time line of events. I've been avoiding it...for...almost a full year now... Yes, I am dedicated and stubborn; two of my more charming qualities. Now I, for real, have to go through and put every single freaking event in the 200 pages of my novel on one large piece of paper, so I can make sure it makes sense. Because right now it doesn't. As a testament to how out of whack my timing is throughout the novel, when I started writing the end, I wrote very ambiguous time references in an attempt to avoid writing a time line. Yes, this is a lazy writer maneuver, and obviously it didn't work. But remember, I am running a marathon here, and some days I'm just plain tired.
However, this first novel is my baby, and I want her to be a well-written, grammatically correct, page-turning, thrilling, suspenseful, blood, guts, and gore filled, emotional rollercoaster! I can't freaking wait for all of you who read my novel to ride this rollercoaster with me!
So, I do what it takes. No matter what. To make my first, real contribution to the literary world as good as it can be. For my own bragging rights and for my readers' enjoyment.
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