Shiny! (?)
Jun. 3rd, 2009 02:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_pretentiousWell, I've rashly fired off the Big Book to an agent. I polished the synopsis until I didn't hate it, let it simmer a bit, then polished it some more until I thought it might have, as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jamesenge put it when he proposed that the synopsis is more a trick than a form, some shininess to it.
After a couple of hours working my way through the most convoluted set of submission instructions I've seen in a long time, I hit send before I could fall prey to my own perfectionism again.
If history is anything to go by, now all I have to do is wait several months for an enthusiastic preliminary response, so that I can then get strung along for a year before the usual rejection comes: We really liked your book, but have just discovered to our shock and horror that it's exactly as long as you told us it was in your cover letter in the first place. Why can't you write something short, for Pete's sake?
There's a name for the Buyer's Remorse people get right after they've bought a house. Is there a standard term for the analogous Submitter's Remorse people get right after they've submitted their manuscripts? There must be.
Nothing for it but to get back to work. I've been away from the Ria story long enough now to give it another big push.
jamesenge put it when he proposed that the synopsis is more a trick than a form, some shininess to it.After a couple of hours working my way through the most convoluted set of submission instructions I've seen in a long time, I hit send before I could fall prey to my own perfectionism again.
If history is anything to go by, now all I have to do is wait several months for an enthusiastic preliminary response, so that I can then get strung along for a year before the usual rejection comes: We really liked your book, but have just discovered to our shock and horror that it's exactly as long as you told us it was in your cover letter in the first place. Why can't you write something short, for Pete's sake?
There's a name for the Buyer's Remorse people get right after they've bought a house. Is there a standard term for the analogous Submitter's Remorse people get right after they've submitted their manuscripts? There must be.
Nothing for it but to get back to work. I've been away from the Ria story long enough now to give it another big push.
