Thursday, October 15, 2009

Nails in My Eyeballs

Okay, I am hitting my to do list super hard. After all, I need to strike while the iron is hot. I am a MAGGIE finalist. I need to find an agent. Oh, and I need to get my first GOLDEN HEART entry out today.

So.... first things first....

Do I race to the office to get info about agents? Heck no. That is like doing bills for me. This is why I need an agent -- seriously-- I am allergic to business junk. But I must force myself to drive each nasty nail into my eyeball and read, research, and decide......... who who who... and then there are the inevitable guidelines..... they read like forms at the ER or Doctor's office to me. I hate them. I know. Is this wrong for me to hate them? I don't know. It's no offense to the people who require me to fulfill the guidelines or fill out doctor forms, really, it isn't. I just don't like jumping through prescribed hoops.

This is why I am highly motivated to sell my work. I would rather nail my tongue to a counter top than wear pantyhose again and say, hey yah, I'll go get the toner for you.

Any rate, I did do the work involved.

And my brain hurts.

I also got my GOLDEN HEART entry, numero uno, out today. I had serious angst about my CD holder... it had black sharpie scribbles on it... don't ask. I ended up going to STAPLES and buying a bunch of new holders just to send it out without the stupid scribbles.

Okay? It's like writing thank you notes. I am probably the only person I know who writes them out on the computer FIRST before rewriting them on paper... inevitably I mess up my handwriting or something else... don't ask about addresses. I mess them up... more envelopes have been tossed due to my negligence.

And I am a writer?

But the deed and deeds are accomplished.

Whew!!



4 comments:

Gwen Hernandez said...

I know what you mean about guidelines (and forms)! I get a headache just trying to keep them all straight. It's exhausting. I find myself looking for agents who accept email submissions, so I don't have to mail anything.

Christine said...

Gwen, I know. But the email subs are a pain, too. Each one has different guidelines. And posting the MS/Chapters in the body of the e was TORTURE due to formatting problems.

But I hope I prevailed....

I do have a grid... that seems easy enough to keep track of....

Martha W. said...

Christine, you crack me up! I was laughing hard enough my DH had me read it out loud so he could see the big deal!

Have you thought of writing RomCom? You would be very good at it...

Christine said...

Ah Martha, so funny you should ask about RomCom... this was the reason for my glorious rejection. LOVED my writing but it read like ROM COM and not the line I was targeting... there was angst, I promise, but later and the editor didn't get to read that in the partial... *sigh*...

God help me... back to the trenches.