There’s a letdown at the end of NaNo. At the end of any project, really, but with NaNo, it’s amplified by the stress and wonder and joy of a month of mad noveling with friends.
I mostly avoided it this year, I thought. Jumped right from Hiro to Taro, with the plan to jump back.
Only now…meh.
I finished the Taro edit. Got rid of the last weak scene, and wrote a pretty darn good one to take its place. Sent off a nudge to that agent. (whom, it appears, did not need nudging…)
Now I can’t bring myself to do anything. Characters I love so much from a distance repel me when I get close. Or rather, their stories do. The work does. I don’t even want to read stuff over.
Wish I could go to bed, but do that too early and I’ll be up at three and even more miserable.
Bah. I’m pathetic.
Call me, please. We’re going to the Phoenix Zoo and thought we’d take Hope with us if she wants to go.
*snuggles KD*
What did you mean, the agent “did not need nudging?” — has she been in touch since last I heard from you? Isn’t it pathetic that some publishers are now offering first time authors NADA in advance? How do you get a lit. agent to work for 15% of nothing!!!!!!
I follow her on Twitter, and I thought she’d skipped me when she reported how caught up she was on queries and partials and fulls. Turns out she’d missed some, or something, because last week she was working on six-month-old partials, where the last I’d heard she was caught up through Sept 1st. (I sent mine 8/30, so I just figured she’d gotten it much later than I’d sent it.)
I hadn’t heard that about advances–it does seem ridiculous. Before that first book goes out has to be when the agents do the absolute most work!