Submission Lockdown

The good part is that this particular manuscript has slipped through the gauntlet of snares that traps up a vast majority of written works in this world. With lucky timing and tons of support, I managed to pique the curiosity of an editor and get my pages into her hands. While there is still a vastly greater chance that this novel will be rejected rather than published, it's chances fall within the integer levels. This is extremely encouraging.

Now, the down side of this fact is that I feel bound by etiquette not to submit my manuscript to anyone else until the official rejection has been delivered. (Okay, okay, rejection OR approval) I've read that a good time to wait is 6 weeks. Well, week one= gone.

To my close friends who may be reading this, please forgive my return to these following points. I feel that if I do not constantly remind myself of then, then I will go crazy with worry. Besides that, Isn't it better to write my thoughts out here than to sit in front of Yahoo Mail hitting [refresh] [refresh] [refresh].

A couple sources have said that most outright rejections come within the first two weeks. They say that if an author doesn't hear from an agent or editor in two months, then a followup e-mail is not inappropriate. This tells me that news should definitely come by the time the NaNo novel is all sketched out. So, the wait should not be terrible. Not after next week, anyway.

NaNoWriMo starts in only a couple weeks, so while there might be enough time to write a short story, I must not start writing my next novel yet. This causes must frustration. Though, come to think of it, there are other works in progress that can be continued or rewritten.