How many times in the three and a bit years I have been doing the WB course has that lack of self confidence kicked in? Many I can assure you, and it has done it again. This you may have noticed, fellow bloggers, in my last blog.
Now thankfully the lack of self confidence has now gone and things seem to be getting back on track again. How do I know this? I have started novel number two.
Novel number one has been worked to within an inch of it's life, to say the least, and after a visit to the local library to use their copy of the Writers and Artists Yearbook so I could get a list of agents I have started the task of sending out my work in the hope that an agent will like what they see and decide to take me on as a client. I live in hope with fingers, toes, arms and legs all crossed. But to stop my nerves from kicking in and my self confidence plummeting into the depths I have started the second book in my trilogy. The background work has been done, new characters profiled (must get the profiles of the returning characters out of the filing system), scenes and chapters typed and printed, and today pen got put together and the second novel has begun. A day to remember although if the last book is anything to go by it will soon become and dim and distant memory.
And so to the filing box before I forget and pull out those profiles I desperately need. I hope that I will hear from you all soon.
Congratulations on completing your first novel, it is a wonderful feeling isn't it?
ReplyDeleteI hope to read your published novel very soon. Good luck with finding an agent.
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Thank you, and yest it is a wonderful feeling. It was shortly followed by fear and dread as I start the process of looking for an agent. Persistence seems to be the order of the day.
ReplyDeleteGo for it! It's the right thing to do. Then forget about it and concentrate on the next piece of writing - it's what you love to do. Good luck!
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Thank you Jane and the same to you with whatever you are doing. One of these days, who knows, we might meet up on the book signing ciruit. Now there's a thought.
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