Work work work work work work work.....

[captainsblog]

Had another of my stupid-offs today. I'd entered a court appearance for 4 p.m. More I looked at it, more I knew it was wrong. That's Just Not Done around here.  I called, and sure enough, it was 2, same as the last one in this case.  I also knew what happened; that deceptively easy Event wheel on the iPhone defaults, whenever you enter a future appointment, to the exact time of the day you're keying it in- and the last hearing in this thing went close to two hours.


My opponent had it down for 3 before he realized he'd made the same mistake. No idea what HE was thinking.

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Before and after that (and even during, while three other cases came and went), I wrote.  Some thought 7,500 words a day was unrealistic. They were right:

35000 / 50000
(70%)

That's an even 10K today, baybee.  Three days to go, 5K a day, and the last 5 are largely written in my head. The plot and the word count are both in the home stretch.  I sing, I threaten to dance, I tell jokes.  I've yet to kill a single human being, but there's an obligatory "rocks fall, everyone dies" scene anyway.

The only question now is, do I shop this to actual agents, or do I Lulu this?

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[timprov.livejournal.com]

Unless it's a middle-grade book, an agent won't even look at at at 50k.

My advice for what to do with it is:

1. Throw it in a drawer for a month. You're too close to it right now to make good decisions.
2. When the month is over, read it again. If you hate it, put in back in the drawer and look at it again in a year. Hopefully this won't happen, though.
3. Fix all of the things about it that make you cringe. There will be a bunch.
4. Have somebody critique it who does this sort of thing. If possible, two or three people. They will say some things that make you want to change things. Do that.
5. Revisit the decision of how you want to pursue publication.