Unfortunately, nothing new to report on finding a literary agent to represent my first novel, Art and Soul.
In the meantime, I’m still working on my second book. I think my hypothetical elevator pitch for it would be: “It’s contemporary women’s fiction. Think It’s a Wonderful Life (yes, the 1946 Capra classic starring Jimmy Stewart) meets Beauty and the Beast.” If that doesn’t get your mind buzzing…
The JuNoWriMo 2015 writing challenge comes to a close tomorrow and, with 27,000 words down, I’m still a little behind on my progress towards my 30,000-word target .
But I passed another milestone and I’m ridiculously pleased to be able to give myself another badge:
I’m planning to go for a big push today and tomorrow to hit 30,000 before midnight on the 30th. The prospect of the next badge is very alluring 🙂
Art and Soul 
Good luck! 😉 I’m sure you’ll be able to do it!
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I’m going to do my best. REALLY want that badge! 😉
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I enjoy watching your progress. The deal is, if you beat yourself up for missing a goal, you get to reward yourself for achieving a goal. As you reach the little goals, the big goals get closer and closer! Keep at it!
Most people don’t roll out of bed and decide to be in the Olympics, the athletes in the Olympics trained and raced in smaller meets, won and lost, working their way up to the Olympics. If you can’t get the last 3000 words, look at how close you came, and assess how to do a better job next time. You still accomplished a lot and you may still accomplish the 30k goal.
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Thanks, Dan. I’ll be so pleased if I make the goal and, even if I don’t, I came close. Now I just need to keep up the momentum through the summer to see if I can have a first draft done some time in September…
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Have you thought about self-publishing as a download? I have heard that positive reviews can work wonders when looking for an agent. Jx
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The plan (at the moment!) is to try agents first. If I have no luck there I’ll try the online imprint publishers. And if again no luck then I’ll self-publish. I find the idea of self-publishing very exciting.
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Best of luck, you can do it 🙂
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