Agents get rejected too
Today I'm letting my agent (Kristin Nelson) help me out with my blog. Actually, I'm linking to Kristin's post of last night on my blog. Lazy? Eh . . . not really. I felt completely icky yesterday (sore throat, achy, runny schnoz, the whole bit). Thought I was getting a cold -- or worse -- the flu. But I'm feeling better today. I'm also swamped.
The edits for Bewitched & Betrayed is due back to my editor a week from today, and I've had two characters inform me of a rather drastic change in their relationship that I now have one week to weave into the manuscript. Jeez. I tried to talk them out of it (and I wish they would have told me sooner), but such is the nature of head-strong characters. Actually, it's not a change so much as I hadn't planned for them to do that in this book. Later, people, later. But, they're not listening to me right now. So, I'm going with the flow. I also have something else going on (can't tell you yet, because it's not official), that will be competing for more of my time over the next few weeks. And my day job is busy -- gotta love that job security.
So the long and short is, I'm letting Kristin do the educational/informative part of my blog today. If you think that only writers suffer the pangs of rejection, think again. Agents get rejected, too.
Since time-wise I'm being pulled in three different directions, it would actually help me a lot if you all could help me with blog topics for the next week or so. Questions? Curiosities? Ponderings? Let me know, and I'll try to answer.
Lisa
The edits for Bewitched & Betrayed is due back to my editor a week from today, and I've had two characters inform me of a rather drastic change in their relationship that I now have one week to weave into the manuscript. Jeez. I tried to talk them out of it (and I wish they would have told me sooner), but such is the nature of head-strong characters. Actually, it's not a change so much as I hadn't planned for them to do that in this book. Later, people, later. But, they're not listening to me right now. So, I'm going with the flow. I also have something else going on (can't tell you yet, because it's not official), that will be competing for more of my time over the next few weeks. And my day job is busy -- gotta love that job security.
So the long and short is, I'm letting Kristin do the educational/informative part of my blog today. If you think that only writers suffer the pangs of rejection, think again. Agents get rejected, too.
Since time-wise I'm being pulled in three different directions, it would actually help me a lot if you all could help me with blog topics for the next week or so. Questions? Curiosities? Ponderings? Let me know, and I'll try to answer.
Lisa
posted by Lisa Shearin at
7:13 AM
2 Comments:
Wow, those pesky characters! I guess they just don't know how to behave. Lol.
I have a question. Not directly related to writing exactly, and I don't know if it would make a long blog post or not, but I shall email it to you anyway :)
Good luck with the rewrite. I hope the characters aren't too rough on you. {SMILE}
Anne Elizabeth Baldwin
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