I have sent out 50 query letters in the last month and plan on persevering until I find the right agent. When I started querying I just desperately wanted an agent, but now I'm on the hunt for the RIGHT one for me an my work. I think that this mindset makes all the difference.
I like to think of my query letter as bait that I cast out over and over again until it finally lands the perfect fish. Don't think of the rejection letters as negative feedback-it just means that that agent was not the RIGHT one.
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| Someday I'll land a big one...just you wait! |
I believe that I will receive an offer of representation eventually, but if not I will continue to write because that's what writers do. We keep going. We fight on. We struggle through the dark times and rejoice in the small triumphs. I cannot think of a more exciting feeling than the thrill I get from penning the perfect evocative sentence. That's what being a writer is all about. It's not about being published (although that would be nice); we are authors because the compulsion to tell our stories is like an addiction. We literally cannot fight the urge to create.
Can I get an AMEN-nah!?!
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| Is my southern showing? |
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