getting there
Jan. 5th, 2007 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmegaeraWe have achieved synopsis. Long version, anyway. Eleven pages, which is less than half of the rough draft I started with. Now I just need to do a 2-page version (which will probably take longer than the eleven-page version did), and I will have all the arsenal I need to start querying. Because I also have a query letter and a triaged list of agents who might be interested in what I've got and that I might be interested in representing me. I've even got them in something of a hierarchy. Out of that many agents, *one* ought to want to see what s/he can do with my book, right?
I really can't wait to get the query-mailings going, so that I can mentally set the first book aside and get started on the second one (I'm working on it, carbonelle, I'm working on it!). I've started some research reading, so that's something, anyway.
On the needlework front, I finished my first UFO (unfinished object) of the year, a cross-stitch picture I started while I was at my mother's -- I have to say the cross-stitch is a nice break after All That Quilting. I've started a second UFO, and after I finish it, I will probably do something about another baby quilt (piecing it will only take a couple of days, but the quilting will keep me out of trouble for a couple of weeks), and by then I should have the National Park quilt pieced. If not, there's always more UFOs.
I suppose I should explain. Piecing is by machine, and therefore happens upstairs, usually during the day, and so doesn't count in the needlework "front," if that makes any sense. Quilting and/or cross-stitch is by hand, and takes place downstairs in front of the tv in the evenings. It's necessary to always have some kind of handwork on the table by the chair in front of the tv.
Oh, and I sowed my first garden seeds of the year. In spite of the fact that it's low 40s and raining outside. Wintersowing (www.wintersowing.org). I'm looking forward to seeing how that turns out. And there are cyclamens blooming outside, and I bought some primroses, the bulbs are starting to poke their heads up, and we might have spring again after all [g].
I really can't wait to get the query-mailings going, so that I can mentally set the first book aside and get started on the second one (I'm working on it, carbonelle, I'm working on it!). I've started some research reading, so that's something, anyway.
On the needlework front, I finished my first UFO (unfinished object) of the year, a cross-stitch picture I started while I was at my mother's -- I have to say the cross-stitch is a nice break after All That Quilting. I've started a second UFO, and after I finish it, I will probably do something about another baby quilt (piecing it will only take a couple of days, but the quilting will keep me out of trouble for a couple of weeks), and by then I should have the National Park quilt pieced. If not, there's always more UFOs.
I suppose I should explain. Piecing is by machine, and therefore happens upstairs, usually during the day, and so doesn't count in the needlework "front," if that makes any sense. Quilting and/or cross-stitch is by hand, and takes place downstairs in front of the tv in the evenings. It's necessary to always have some kind of handwork on the table by the chair in front of the tv.
Oh, and I sowed my first garden seeds of the year. In spite of the fact that it's low 40s and raining outside. Wintersowing (www.wintersowing.org). I'm looking forward to seeing how that turns out. And there are cyclamens blooming outside, and I bought some primroses, the bulbs are starting to poke their heads up, and we might have spring again after all [g].
