Writing in the Midst of Life

It’s been a little over a month since I sent out my WIP to the two agents. The one sent via email responded within one week. You can read the previous post on that one. The second, I’m still waiting to hear from.

For all I know it could be on his pile of TBR (to be read) or maybe like a friend of mine, he read it and it’s sitting on his floor as he debates what to do with it and me! In the mean time I entered this WIP Stiletto contest. Not sure if it’s technically a chicklit story,  but I the protag was snarky and sassy enough that it could go that way. To me, it’s a mystery with humor. So we’ll see where that all goes.

I haven’t been to positive on contest. Seems like all the ones I enter I get really high scores and one really and maybe one in the middle. But that kills my average and I don’t make it to the finals. In the past I’ve entered for the feedback and have been very disappointed when the judges barely tell you how to fix your work. I even was thankful about the low, low score I received when other pubbed authors gave it a 91/99. At least the low score gave me things I could improve.

Not sure that I’m expecting from Stiletto.

I had the opportunity to attend a Cecil Murphy mentoring clinic. $500! I debated and went back and forth. I could scrounge up the money, but when all was said and done, I didn’t have the passion to do it. It was more like “I should do this” instead of “I really want to do this.” I’m sure I’ll get another opportunity some other time in my writing career.

Until then, I’ll keep waiting, and writing…