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Monday, August 11, 2003

The List has 4 chapters and 4500+ words. 90,000 to go! Am working away in Deaf Dog. Well, at this exact moment, I'm not, but I will be back at it when I finish this post. I've been working on the rwawebsite survey and keeping track of my search for a new agent. Sigh. I am promising myself that tonight I will have two more letters out (total of 4) I put together a db to keep track of agents, requirements and my queries. News flash - everyone wants you if you have a "voice" and sales like Nora. They all say they're open to new authors - provided you're going to be famous, and since most of you aren't going to be, well, the subtext is don't waste your postage. So I keep reading all this stuff and saying, but I'm really good at this, why don't you want to hear from a writer like me? Doors closed firmly in face. Oh, anyway, The List is going along and that's about all I can say because I don't have enough yet to have a feel for the h/h, other than I thought I couldn't do funny and maybe I can. But, as ever, I started writing actual chapters and darned if my hero didn't turn out to have a broken heart. He really needs my heroine, only he doesn't know it yet. That little flash of Oh! is always cool when it happens.

posted by Carolyn @ 8/11/2003 11:28:00 AM Permalink

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