Day 27: Back in school

Classes start tomorrow. Not sure if I'm suppose to have a roommate or not, but the apartment is empty for now. Got locked out yesterday because the manager didn't feel like coming to give me the key after I got off the plane. I ended up stranded outside, standing by myself for 30 minutes before a friend came to rescue me and feed me. Thank God for God and good friends.

Material Status:

Partial 1: 7 weeks (will nudge in 8 weeks)

Partial 2: 16 day

Partial 3: 7 days

Partial 4: 7 days

Partial 5: 2 days

Partial 6: 2 days

Full 1: 15 days

Full 2: 12 days

Full 3: 4 days

Full 4: 3 day

Dear Santa,

Please tell me somewhere in there is an agent who'd give me a change =(

Blanche

Day 26: Stamps again...

Why is the post office never open when I'm awake? Well, I'm fixing that today. I'm going to print and submit today for sure!

It's funny, as an artist, I use to worry about wasting paper all the time. I never used blank paper, or even new canvases. Everything was on the back of something (mostly homework) and my AP Art teacher even gave me all the old canvases people left behind (about 30-40). Heck, even the rough draft of my book was written on the back of old statistics and econ homework.

Material Status:

Partial 1: 6 weeks? (should probably nudge)

Partial 2: 14 day

Partial 3: 5 days

Partial 4: 5 days

Partial 5: ... hasn't sent out yet. (No stamps ._.)

Partial 6: ... hasn't sent out yet. (No stamps ._.)

Full 1: 13 day

Full 2: 10 days

Full 3: 2 days

Full 4: 1 day

Oh, and here's a painting I finished yesterday. The lighting's not great, but I thought I'd share.

Day 25: Requests

Oh boy... so I need stamps now, because the last two agents who requested partials want snail mail packages. I'm also a little broke, being a college student and all. My parents are lending me a little for the process, but they're not exactly literary people and would rather I spend my time studying science instead of writing.

I ran my plot and theme against a professor of mine, and she said that if my book as a intricate as what I told her, there shouldn't be any problems on getting it published. The problem, she said, was that agents may not see the theme initially unless I tell them, so I should revise my query to state my point more clearly.

So I sent more (revised) queries out yesterday, mostly because the wait is killing me, and two came back this morning: one for a partial, one for a full, both for a synopsis.

So far...

Status

Queries sent: 38
Query Rejections: 19
Material Requests: 14
Waiting on: 5