As for that delicious little urge *sets up booth* - free t-shirts for all!
I'm a noob too so I don't even know if what I did was exactly the protocol (but thank GOD it worked because it spared me the grief of writing another of those wretched queries!) We simply had lunch and I ran the idea by her (we had just gone on sub with novel 1 at that time). She said she thought it was great and I asked her when I should start showing her stuff. She said every author she had was different. Some liked to show her stuff as they went along (every fifty pages or so) while others waited until the book was done to get her thoughts. She left it up to me decide what I was comfortable with (which I can tell you does NOT involve writing queries, outlines or any type of synopsis.). Have I told you I love my agent? I. LOVE. MY. AGENT.
Yikes! Good luck with the root canal!
As for that delicious little urge *sets up booth* - free t-shirts for all!
Today will be a wash. At work till noon then off to have a root canal done. The fun, it just never stops!
HC - I had that urge when I got R's about 8 months after I signed with agent man. I SO wanted to email back and say, nah nee boo boo! LOL I'm five.
Trixie - I find it harder and easier. Harder because I am putting more pressure on myself to write a REALLY great book. I'm a panster and when it stalls out, I panic. BUT, its also easier because agent man has the final say whether I write the story or not, so it takes the pressure off to come up with something fantastic and spend months getting it perfect only to have him say, nah. I find the more I write, the more I slow down and plan though. Its to the point where I have to have a general idea where I'm going to get there.
maddr - OMG If E hates this idea I am done! LOL It is so cool!! And funny as hell! (At least I hope so!)
Sorry about the root canal, YA.
I'm a little late to this discussion, but I am finding the writing experience ery different now that I have an agent. The book on sub is the only one that I have written, and like HC, I spent a long time (too long) researching before I finally was driven to get started. I had it pretty well plotted out, but I wrote alone, not knowing whether it was any good, really writing for myself at first as an escape during a difficult time. I didn't have anyone read it until it was "done," and that first and only reader was my husband, who doesn't count from a critical point of view (but of course he counts in every other way!)
Now with my WIP I'm trying something a bit more difficult structurally (two MC with equal importance) but I have to be sure that ONE SPECIFIC reader likes it -- my agent. If she doesn't, or I have two choices: trunk it, or get a new agent. So I think I'm a little trepidatious. I shared the idea with her, and she was only mildly encouraging, which I wasn't expecting. I've only worked with her since September. She only likes to read fulls, not outlines or partials. That's good, because I don't want to "write to order" and change an outline around at her direction, and since I'm not used to outside readers, I don't want her to see an unpolished partial until I'm really happy with the entire structure of the novel. But then again, I could finish it, and she could dislike it.
Having an agent means that in addition to my own writer's doubts, I have to worry about my agent's doubts too.
Yep, connected with agent( phew!). On submission. Officially a hellion. Please make room for me. Let the masochism begin.
Enjoyed reading the part about working on the wip but not the part about the root canal.
Hope it ends well, YAwriter72.
Yep, connected with agent( phew!). On submission. Officially a hellion. Please make room for me. Let the masochism begin.
Enjoyed reading the part about working on the wip but not the part about the root canal.
Hope it ends well, YAwriter72.
Yep, connected with agent( phew!). On submission. Officially a hellion. Please make room for me. Let the masochism begin.
I'm a noob too so I don't even know if what I did was exactly the protocol (but thank GOD it worked because it spared me the grief of writing another of those wretched queries!) We simply had lunch and I ran the idea by her (we had just gone on sub with novel 1 at that time). She said she thought it was great and I asked her when I should start showing her stuff. She said every author she had was different. Some liked to show her stuff as they went along (every fifty pages or so) while others waited until the book was done to get her thoughts. She left it up to me decide what I was comfortable with (which I can tell you does NOT involve writing queries, outlines or any type of synopsis.). Have I told you I love my agent? I. LOVE. MY. AGENT.