Congrats, sockycat!!! That's fantastic!!!!!!
So.
Um.
Woke up this morning to find an email from the agent who has my partial. Didn't open it immediately. Made my daughter's breakfast and mine, then choked down my food while psyching myself up to open it. "It's okay to be rejected. Rejected means I'm trying, and just because it's not working NOW doesn't mean it won't ever work. I'm going to keep at this, because the only way I'll ever get anywhere is if I keep going." Got myself to a mental place where I was prepared for and okay with being rejected.
She wants the full.
*vomits everywhere*
So once I send this, it'll be three fulls out. I'll send it this afternoon when my daughter is down for her nap so I can stare at the email in peace for forty minutes or so, making sure that I haven't attached, like, a copy of the paper I wrote for my English class five years ago or spelled the agent's name with twelve q's and an ampersand or something likewise horrific.
And then I'll go back to trying to figure out what on earth I'm writing next. I've got a kernel of an idea but am working on writing out some notes so that I have something resembling a plot. I came up with a few good ideas last night, so I think I'll just stick to freewriting notes for a little bit to get to know my characters better. My last novel, I was able to plot it out on notecards. I wrote out each scene (and wrote them all out of order), and that made it a LOT easier to go, "Okay, I need to get from card C to card D. What's something that can happen that bridges that gap, knowing what I know about them now?" It worked really well for me, so I'm hoping to do that again with this one, or whatever it is that I end up focusing fully on next.