So to put it simply, I am a big proponent of "jumping the gun". It's something I'm working on, and I think getting better at, but long story short, I started querying agents way before my manuscript was ready. Yesterday I got a response from an agent I was really eager to work with. It was a really nice personalized email (rare) saying how she got really excited by my query (so I guess it's not all bad news) but when she read my first ten pages she just wasn't into the story.
Of course there are tons of reasons agents don't connect with a manuscript, but since I sent out my work before it was as perfect as I could get it, I can't help but feel like I might've had a better chance had I not been so impatient and satisfied with "just okay".
What's done is done, but I wasted my not-perfect writing on quite a few agents that I was really interested in working with, and I'm kind of bummed it looks like I may have ruined my chance at getting published for being too impatient.
If there is there anyone who can offer advice/words of encouragement/similar situations I would really appreciate it. Just feeling frustrated at myself and pretty down right now.
Of course there are tons of reasons agents don't connect with a manuscript, but since I sent out my work before it was as perfect as I could get it, I can't help but feel like I might've had a better chance had I not been so impatient and satisfied with "just okay".
What's done is done, but I wasted my not-perfect writing on quite a few agents that I was really interested in working with, and I'm kind of bummed it looks like I may have ruined my chance at getting published for being too impatient.
If there is there anyone who can offer advice/words of encouragement/similar situations I would really appreciate it. Just feeling frustrated at myself and pretty down right now.