No #PitMad for me, because no Twitter. Good luck to those doing it, though!
R cookies to Taylor, joeyc, and anybody else who needs 'em.
noranne - Yeah, working in your writing space and vice versa could definitely drag a person down. Would writing in a public park be feasible, or, I dunno, a bench outside a deserted university building or something? Not the most comfortable set-up, maybe, but at least it would be different.
I always hit a point in a long project where I Just Don't Care Anymore. For me the answer is usually to take a few days off, then kick my butt back into gear and push through it. FWIW, afterward I can't tell from reading it where I was flagging and where I wasn't, and neither can anyone else.
In local news, I've gotten two rejections in the past few days. I'm feeling d@mned discouraged. This is the book that's easy to pitch, it's the one that got terrific response on the opening pages... I really expected to have better results on this one. And yes, it's still early days, I haven't sent out nearly enough queries to be making judgements yet, etc., etc., -- but d@mmit, where are my "hey, this sounds like fun, send me more" responses?