The Word Cloud

Now no one said it was going to be easy. In fact, riiiight from the start I've been told that writing a story and all the trimmings that come with it, will be bloody difficult. So three and a half years ago when I began battering away at my imagination and my computer I was in a lovely naiive place, where all that mattered was having fun and enjoying what I do.

But now.

Now I am actually, maybe, possibly, absolutely, perhaps considering (after more editing and help ofc,) that I might send it off. So I start looking through different parts of this website other than the critique section and start reading the W&AYB 2011 - and then I nearly had a coronary.

I am not naiive (much) and am fully aware it is an agonising, rejected, painful, impatient process, but on top of that, I don't even understand it! I'm not one for sending unsolicited MS' because frankly, I don't see the point in this day and age, but at the same time, an agent?! Me?! You must be joaaaaking.

So ontop of the disbelief that I should be considering contacting agents, I also got lost at the parts where the W&AYB talked about "soundbytes" and "synopses" and "CV's" and "SAE's" - bloody hell!
You simply have to get this process right the first time round, or else risk being doomed to float in publishing purgatory for eternity.


Eek, I'm going to become a Koi Carp keeper.