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Three down...
Friday, May 20th, 2011 11:08 pm(I need to make a writing userpic....)
Sent off another query today, by snail mail this time. It was supposed to go out yesterday, but the process of preparing it ate an astonishingly large chunk of the day for text that I already basically had written. However, now I'll have the full novel all in one file in a format I can send if (when) requested, instead of in chapters in my obscure and ancient little word-processor-of-preference.
Sadly, converting between programs cost me about 2000 words. I suspect that WPOP is a little funky about its word counts; it was probably counting double-hyphens and scene-break asterisks or something, not to mention some weirdness about multiple files versus single. So now the novel appears even shorter; I'm rounding generously to call it 63,000 words. (But it's the length it needs to be to tell the story, so I'm not messing with it now.)
The traffic was so annoying on the way to the Post Awful that I entirely forgot to be stressed about sending the package on its way. And it's to the agency that handles one of my all-time favorite authors, too. Am I getting blase already...? (Answer: No, the traffic really was stupid.)
Sent off another query today, by snail mail this time. It was supposed to go out yesterday, but the process of preparing it ate an astonishingly large chunk of the day for text that I already basically had written. However, now I'll have the full novel all in one file in a format I can send if (when) requested, instead of in chapters in my obscure and ancient little word-processor-of-preference.
Sadly, converting between programs cost me about 2000 words. I suspect that WPOP is a little funky about its word counts; it was probably counting double-hyphens and scene-break asterisks or something, not to mention some weirdness about multiple files versus single. So now the novel appears even shorter; I'm rounding generously to call it 63,000 words. (But it's the length it needs to be to tell the story, so I'm not messing with it now.)
The traffic was so annoying on the way to the Post Awful that I entirely forgot to be stressed about sending the package on its way. And it's to the agency that handles one of my all-time favorite authors, too. Am I getting blase already...? (Answer: No, the traffic really was stupid.)
