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Saturday, April 03, 2004

I've been working hard on materials to send to agent(s). I hate, hate hate hate hate writing a synopsis. But there's no getting around it, darn it all, so I have been spending a lot of time on that. However, I have changed PE back to an orphan which means the stepfather is an uncle again and the mother is an aunt again. I do have a new chapter to write, but I'm not 100% sure where I'll put it. It's actually probably too late for this particular agent, because I didn't follow up fast enough. But I was buried with school and work and edits for The Spare and plus, the Heir kind of sucked, so she would have rejected me for sure. But maybe she'll read this stuff and think it's worth taking me on. We'll see. I hate being back at work full time. I heard on the contest loop that one of the judges was really a low scorer and really mean and for about two days I thought that must be me since I had just emailed back my scores, and that I'd just never judge again because I can't help pointing out what I think are weaknesses, only it turns out I wasn't the meanie judge. Whoever it was scored people in the 70's and none of my entries were anywhere near that bad. And, apparently, there were unkind remarks made which was definitely not me. Even if I want to say, "Go learn to write you hopeless hack" I never actually write that down because I know that's exactly how some of my very early work reads. Well, actually, even at its worst, my worst isn't as bad as some of the stuff I've been asked to judge. At least I don't think so, but then there's that whole incompetance thing. If I think that, it must not be true, because only incompetent people think they're any good. And I do think I'm good. Sometimes.

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