When in doubt, start a new book

One of my fellow AQers got 74 rejections before she finally got an Agent interested. With 25 rejections on PG, 8 on Rule #17, and 5 on Emily Foster (my YA that I want to go back and redo before I send it out again), I'm halfway there. So in addition to getting 2 of those rejections today, I also sent out 10 new queries on Rule #17. I figure the faster I rack up the rejections, the closer I am to getting somewhere.

In the meantime I am following the worst advice possible and abandoning (temporarily) my third romance to start my fourth. It's the first real writing I've done in close to a month.

At least I've had better luck running... I'm still on track there.

When is "good enough" good enough?

In the publishing world, it seems like it never is, but maybe that's my perfectionism or latest series of rejections talking. I did get a request for the first 5 pages of PG, but two days later got a standard rejection on that. Sigh.

In the meantime, I've noticed more and more agents asking for a synopsis upfront, so I'm off to write two of those: one for PG and one for Rule #17. It turns out though that a synopsis isn't just a synopsis. There are several different synopses that could be requested: http://agentqueryconnect.com/index.php?/page/index.html/_/query-letters-tips/thepitch/whats-your-book-about-r19#comments. The moral of the story seems to be start big and hack away. Here's to hacking! Or I guess I should stay here's to starting - I'll hack later.

My marathon training plan:
Monday - 4 mi E w/ 6*30 sec @T pace
Tuesday - walk 2.5 mi
Wed - 3 mi E, 1 mi T
Thursday - bike 30 min - knee hurt again, so there goes the bike again for now
Friday - 3 mi E
Saturday - 8 mi @ HMP