Monthly Archives: February 2011

FACT: I’m becoming the thing I never wanted to be…

So… I’ve noticed that my trips to Starbucks are becoming more and more frequent. This is due to the fact that I have no internet connection at home, and to succeed with my push to find a publisher and/or agent, I need to be online with a real computer as much as possible.

This leads to the following conundrum for me: I’m becoming a Starbucks writer!

While I don’t actually work on my actual writing at the coffee-house near my home, I do a lot of my business online (it seems to be the only real way to conduct business anymore), and it’s the one thing I swore to myself I would never do, which is go to Starbucks and write, which I’m doing now.

As far as the agent search is going, so far I’m hitting walls. Both that I have attempted to contact are no longer employed with their agencies, and I have to research the agencies to see if they can handle my needs. I’m seriously thinking on just trying to submit directly to publishers and cut out the middle man. But I’ve also been strongly advised to find an agent first too. So I’m torn which  is actually the best course of action for me at the current time.

So that’s where I’m at currently. I’m sure that it doesn’t seem like it would be such a monumental decision, but when you sit down and think about it, it’s a life-changing decision. Deciding the difference to whether or not I go from writer to published author.

I will never give up though, and I will continue to work on the series and other projects as I go along.

I’m also pretty excited, due to the fact that I think I’ve broken my writer’s block with the series: I wrote a full chapter last night, being the first time I’ve written in the world since shortly after the car accident I was in this past April. It has been a continual source of frustration, and I hope that the flood gates are reopened and this wasn’t just a fluke.

I think that’s about it at the time being.