Since September I've been sending out my manuscript, query, and synopsis to literary agents. It's been a bit disheartening and hard to keep my own personal moral up. I don't mind the thank-you-no-thank-you letters/emails, it's the no word ones that kind of tie me up.
By them not even sending a note, I have to wait the entire 2-8 weeks before I feel comfortable sending my paperwork out to the next set of agents. I know I don't need to but it feels unprofessional to do otherwise. So I send out to agents in batches and then wait and wait to hear nothing except my calendar inform me that I can begin the process again.
Yet this time, I got a little tug on my line. An agent actually requested to see the first five pages of my manuscript. I know it's not much, it's not even 2% of my book, but it makes me feel great. Which is exactly what I needed to keep my edits and writing humming back on track. Even if this isn't the agent for me, I appreciate that her asking for more, it lifts my spirits and juices my drive to hit the pages harder.
To the work!
Please let me channel the Energizer bunny behind the keyboard,
~The Writer