If anyone had told me a few years ago that being an author consisted of lots of waiting for things to happen followed by mad scrambles to do edits or meet contract and then more waiting, I would have laughed. I actually thought that once I scrambled over the fence separating aspiring writers from published the waiting would end. Silly me.
Where’s this leading you ask? I’m currently in waiting mode, barely hanging on to sanity and what’s left of my patience. Yes, there are several irons in the fire, manuscripts at various places and with various people. I have three different manuscripts out at the moment. I’m working on a new manuscript and have almost finished the first draft. I’m writing but the waiting is grinding me down. Is anyone else out there waiting? Please tell me I’m not waiting alone!
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November 7th, 2007 at 12:30 am · Link
It really is a hurry-up-and-wait thing, isn’t it?
Put it out of your head and enjoy the “lull” for now. Because odds are that all three of those manuscripts will come back at once needing editing NOW!!!
November 7th, 2007 at 12:37 am · Link
LOL – I think I’d actually welcome that. At this stage I just want to KNOW.
November 7th, 2007 at 8:25 am · Link
Yep. The publishing business is a mad, mad, mad world in itself. *LOL*
November 7th, 2007 at 12:12 pm · Link
Woohoo! After all my complaining I found a contract in my inbox today for Assassin, my fourth Middlemarch book. Cool bananas
November 7th, 2007 at 1:39 pm · Link
YEs, I was waiting until yesterday for over a month. I know the feeling, just when you think you can’t take it anymore. UGH.
Now I’m in scramble mode.
I still have a manuscript with an agent … so I’m still waiting, and waiting. I’m here for ya. :)
November 7th, 2007 at 8:14 pm · Link
You are of course not alone. I’m waiting on one submission, working on edits on another, waiting on second round edits for a third and trying to finish one.
Uh huh. Can you say nuttier than a fruitcake?
November 7th, 2007 at 11:18 pm · Link
Told you so!
Congratulations – and now, get to work!
November 9th, 2007 at 2:53 am · Link
argh YES! The waiting is an absolute killer!! The longest time I ever waited on a partial from M&B was 13 months. And then it was a form rejection!