This is hard!
Mood: Oh, who knows?
What I'm Watching Right Now: The 11 o'clock news
So this agent thing might be harder than actually writing a book. That isn't to say it's going bad. I'm actually surprised at the reaction I've gotten so far. Obviously I don't want to go into detail because naming names isn't cool, plus actually writing the number of times I've been rejected is depressing, but they haven't all been rejections, folks. No news yet though. We'll see...
Back to this being hard. I think some people might look at writers and think that it must be the easiest job in the world. We just sit around our computers making up stories in our pajamas, eating bon bons or something. Not so much.
I mean, yes to the pajamas and boy do I wish I had some bon bons, but besides that, this is hard, hard stuff. Think about it, we need the creativity and dedication to think up, write and finish books. Then there's the editing, (my least favorite part) and then just when you think you've got your book right, you send it out to agents and some of them reject you, some of them say it's good but needs work and maybe, just maybe, someone loves it. Hard, hard, hard.
I've said this before but putting yourself out there to be judged and/or rejected is one of the toughest things a human being can do, and we have to do it just to get started.
Now, I'm not really complaining, since a) I'm not published yet and b) it's sure as hell better than crunching numbers, (unless, of course, crunching numbers is your passion, then it's totally cool) and looking at a future without writing. At least for me.
I've been trying to explain what this process is like to my friends and family, and I still don't think I've been able to express it properly. Even the good stuff is nerve wracking. Let's just say, hypothetically of course, that an agent wants to see your partial or full manuscript, that's awesome... for about five minutes. Until you realize that now you have to send your "baby" off to someone to say whether they like it or not. Yeah, that pretty much sucks the fun out of that.
Although that five minutes is pretty freakin' awesome. I'm just guessing, because I don't know YET, that finally getting an agent and then obviously being published makes it all worth it.
Hopefully that will happen to me and I'll let you know. ;)
-B
What I'm Watching Right Now: The 11 o'clock news
So this agent thing might be harder than actually writing a book. That isn't to say it's going bad. I'm actually surprised at the reaction I've gotten so far. Obviously I don't want to go into detail because naming names isn't cool, plus actually writing the number of times I've been rejected is depressing, but they haven't all been rejections, folks. No news yet though. We'll see...
Back to this being hard. I think some people might look at writers and think that it must be the easiest job in the world. We just sit around our computers making up stories in our pajamas, eating bon bons or something. Not so much.
I mean, yes to the pajamas and boy do I wish I had some bon bons, but besides that, this is hard, hard stuff. Think about it, we need the creativity and dedication to think up, write and finish books. Then there's the editing, (my least favorite part) and then just when you think you've got your book right, you send it out to agents and some of them reject you, some of them say it's good but needs work and maybe, just maybe, someone loves it. Hard, hard, hard.
I've said this before but putting yourself out there to be judged and/or rejected is one of the toughest things a human being can do, and we have to do it just to get started.
Now, I'm not really complaining, since a) I'm not published yet and b) it's sure as hell better than crunching numbers, (unless, of course, crunching numbers is your passion, then it's totally cool) and looking at a future without writing. At least for me.
I've been trying to explain what this process is like to my friends and family, and I still don't think I've been able to express it properly. Even the good stuff is nerve wracking. Let's just say, hypothetically of course, that an agent wants to see your partial or full manuscript, that's awesome... for about five minutes. Until you realize that now you have to send your "baby" off to someone to say whether they like it or not. Yeah, that pretty much sucks the fun out of that.
Although that five minutes is pretty freakin' awesome. I'm just guessing, because I don't know YET, that finally getting an agent and then obviously being published makes it all worth it.
Hopefully that will happen to me and I'll let you know. ;)
-B
Labels: Agents.