I usually sit down at the end of every year and write up a list of resolutions. Then I start the year off with a bang and lose momentum fairly quickly. This year I tried a new approach.
This year I decided to physically clean up my world – I sorted my yarn stash (for the non-knitters, I organized the bins of To Be Knitted yarn), I cleaned up my office, I cleaned out my inbox (and only deleted a few things–that I’ve discovered so far–that I wished I hadn’t). Yay! I also revisited my novel.
I have been absent due to a malaise that overcame me in October/November. I was so excited to be querying agents for my novel (Who’s The Name of That Song?) but I was not as excited to receive the rejection letters. Yes. I know. Foolish me. And after about 80 rejections I gave up.
But then the people I’d sent copies to read started to get back to me and I became re-energized and updated my query letter (something must not have been working), bought new querying music (this week’s queries are brought to you by The Killers’ Battle Born and the Friends’ Soundtrack), and sent out a whole additional batch.
So once again, fingers crossed, somebody wants my book!
Jessamyn Foster 