Four Blogs for the Price of One

Although I would like to talk about writing and getting published, there are long fallow periods between events when one is trying to find editors and agents. I've been on this quest since last fall, and pretty much nothing has happened. 19 rejects, and a few who obviously aren't ever going to respond. A couple "positive" rejects, for she who is grasping at straws. It's pretty boring to say, "well, today I found two agents to query." So I talk about other stuff: food, recipes, cooking- that's one blog, and cats, the Scottish Highland cattle down the street, birds, chipmunks and the local fauna - that's another blog, and then whatever else catches my fancy, yet a fourth blog. Such a deal.

I'm taking the plunge and having the first 100 pages of the Wisconson book, Promiscuous Mode, professional edited, something I've never done. It costs a lot, and I'm hoping there will be some payback, like maying selling the book without taking 4-5 years of this querying and being rejected business, which is deflating for the ego and does nothing for the pocketbook and sure as hell doesn't get the book out to the readers. So, we'll see what happens. BTW, I typed Promiscuous Modem, which shows where my little technical mind is.

Speaking of technical, yesterday I tried to save a draft of one of these posts at work and it crapped out totally with page not found. First real technical glitch on this site except the mysterious business of the posts going to the archives first and the hell of trying to figure out how to get my picture up there. Vanity being stronger than technical idocy, I finally managed once they wrote the instructions in English.

I wrote a little bit about work in the post that went into the ether, and maybe that's a sign not to write about work, but of course I am sorely tempted, since work is mostly what I do and the novel writing is evenings and weekends and on planes and trains and wherever.

I discovered another good writing blog for those of you who are collecting same. Just read one post but it looked very thorough and no-nonsense. http://pbackwriter.blogspot.com/2005/03/novel-iv-pitch.html
The post was on how to pitch your novel which sort of assumes you have people who might want to listen. Well, we're all at different stages of the same journey.

More anon. Cool word, anon, but nobody ever uses it. Maybe I'll use it at a meeting. It's fun to liven up business meetings. Mostly you just tell the truth. Such a novel idea.
More anon. :)
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