I find it strange how fast the writing process has gone for this book. Previously, I tried to write a novel during NaNoWriMo and failed. I've been working on the same epic novel for ten years. In school, I was always starting a novel, writing a few pages, then giving up. I've won a couple of awards for short stories and even had one published, but novel writing has always been just out of my grasp.
Now, all of the sudden, I've managed to write an entire 60,000 word novel and rewrite it in a little less than two months. It kind of makes my head spin. I guess that's what the threat of poverty does- it makes you take a chance on your dreams and do the work. While at the time I was writing in just about every spare moment and pushing most other things off to the side, now it seems like a dream.
I'm thinking I'm going to send a query a day to agents; I have four ready to go and one I just sent out tonight. This whole process is fascinating to me. If I have nothing but rejections after 30 or 40, I'll start sending queries off to publishers.
In other news, I'm going to be in Howl O Scream again. At least I can always have scare acting to fall back on if the economy keeps going South. Now that's the kind of marketable skill everyone should have.
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