Weekly Update 8
Hey guys! Today I did something awesome! I ordered a complete physical print of my manuscript! It feels so weird to call it that but that is what it is, a manuscript (I hope you read that with the same accent I used to type it). It kind of feels weird, but I am so excited to see my work printed out onto paper!
This is the final step before I start querying agents, but I am not sure how long it will take. At the earliest: a week. At the latest: two or maybe even three weeks. I have to read the entire thing very carefully and then go back to the computer to make changes. In addition to being excited, I am also worried. This could be the biggest personal roadblock I have faced during this project because it is the last one I am directly responsible for. After this, all I have to do is wait and hope an agent notices me… but this last step is entirely on me.
Part of me is worried that I won’t get past this step. I have already started to feel the “drag,” the feeling that all this work has been for nothing. My biggest fear is that when I pick up my manuscript it will be left on my desk, forgotten to time. I have hinted at it before but I do that, or at least, I have done that, with other undertakings. I can’t count how many ideas I have abandoned in my life, and I hope this isn’t one of them.
It can’t be.
In my personal life, I accomplished some minor achievements. I beat all three of the villains that come in the Marvel Champions box (I absolutely love the game) and I finished Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn: The Final Empire! I loved the book but I am mostly proud of myself because I finished a book (haven’t done that in a bit). I think I am going to start Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina next, but I am not sure.
The last bit of big news is that this is the final week Ian, one of my closest friends and beta readers, will be in America before he is deployed to Africa. I am excited and nervous for him, and I will miss him for the whole year he is gone.
Well, that is about it. I will see you all next week!
