Now the Wait....

So Now that I have sent out 13 queries, I've decided to wait until they all reply in some way before I continue. So far I have 3 replies, all rejections. that's okay though, because they're one more person checked off on my list of options. I hope that someone decides to take my book! If not, I may just work on another book and put THIS book on some website somewhere. Oh well! I'll just look on the bright side and say that I'm going to get a lit agent!

queries

I sent out 13 queries so far. I got 1 rejection, and nothing else yet. I kinda did some stupid things at the beginning so I hope it won't affect me too much...or that one of my later people decide to be my agent.

First day of query writing

I got into a certain query writing type. I have written 5 and sent them out so far.

Important step complete

I recently finished editing(last night), and I was THINKING of adding something else...but as I plan this thing, it just seems like it's going to be bad if I add it in. So, instead of doing that, I'm going to go to the next hugely important part of the process...working on queries(which is what you call the letter you send to literary agents, if you don't know that) and for me to send those out. I can't wait!

Telling you how far I am along tonight...

Alright, I'm on page 47 of the printed out copy and I'm insanely happy with the story as of right now. I've got less than 40 pages left to edit so if I edit 10 pages each day of spring break I'll still finish before April, but I'll probably end up editing some of it over this school week, if I have time. I wish I had no school tomorrow...I would keep going and probably finish it by 6 this morning...stupid school...I need to go take a shower then lay in bed and try to get some sleep so I can wake up in the morning...(possibly early so I can get a page or so more done...heehee).

Halfway through!!

So I'm officially done with the 42nd page, and I have 84 pages total. I'm done with half of it! yaaay! when I get to 63(3/4ths done with editing the book) I'll be bouncing with joy. For now though, I'll just continue to try to get as far as possible before 10. I've finished over 6 pages today so far...I can't remember how many exactly...but I hope to be done with chapter 7 by tonight...maybe chapter 8 too.

editing again, finally.

So after taking another too-long break, I started editing today again. I've editing 3 pages so far, and I want to edit another 5 pages today. If I did, I'd be halfway through the original copy I'm editing off of. I'm ALMOST there! I think if I did that, and I worked hard to edit a lot each day over spring break next week, or at least for the first few days, I MAY be able to finish it by the end of March! It's a stretch, but if I can get 5 more pages done today then why not?

Sadness

Sadly, as my title states, I will not be able to edit much this March at all, not even 3 pages a day, so I shouldn't make my goal to be the end of March. You see, I get home around 5:30-6:30 and I'm usually in bed quite early or I just fall asleep. I get up early to do hw. So, I can't do much with my book until April, but I'll get it done by the end of April!

:D

So I kind of accidentally took an editing break...and it's 5:40 now where I am so I only have a little more than 4 hours til I have to get off my computer. I'll probably just finish my homework and everything first so that I can have less to worry about when I'm editing. I have a new method, that when I am editing, I have it unclipped, with what I finished editing on the left upside down and what still needs to be edited right side up, in nice and neat piles. When I'm not editing I clip them together separately. It makes it much easier. I'm going to make a new goal for myself since obviously I couldn't make the last one. I want to finish editing it by the end of March. if I start editing it a lot like I WANT to then I'll be able to do it. If I edit about 3 pages per day, including today, I should finish it at the end of March. Now that I know that, I'll try to do it, since 3 pages is DEFINITELY a small enough number. I'm going to go now, bye!

K.T.

Editing...agaaain

Well, I didn't get a chance to edit my book yesterday. If I want to get to my goal for the week, I have to edit 10 pages in 2 days. Uh-oh. Thankfully, Tech got canceled today, and I had almost no homework!! I'll be spending hours editing the book, and maybe I'll get it so that I can be AHEAD of the schedule! If I get myself ahead enough, maybe 2 or 3 days ahead, I'll be able to finish it in 2 weeks! That'd rock, considering the sooner I finish this the sooner I can get started on the next part, and I really want to start sending out queries by the end of summer this year! That would rock! I'm getting really excited now!!!

More About Editing

I forgot to edit at all yesterday, but I just did three pages today, and I figured out that if I just edit 4 pages for the rest of the week I'll be on track. I'm doing well, but now the amount of pages isn't adding up as fast as before...I've only added 3 pages total from the beginning to page 24. Sadly, I don't have time to keep writing. I need to do my homework and then if I finish before 9, I can come back on and do another page, because at 9 I'm gonna go watch a show. For now, I say adios so I can do my hw! Adios!

-K.T.