Trying to do everything at once gets you no where.

Yesterday was a low day in working on stuff, to where I had thoughts of giving up several times. Not just giving up for the day, but giving up forever. I was quickly able to push the thoughts aside, because I just delved back into writing, but it’s frustrating.

I like writing. I’m happy with how much I’ve been able to accomplish lately, but I have a goal to be published. Now, I would like to attempt the traditional route of publishing first before I self publish, and the first step to that is having an agent. To get an agent, you have to find one open for queries that works with stories in your genre. Then you have to submit a query and synopsis, which is writing, yes, but a completely different type of writing. But before you even do that, you should have a fully edited copy of your work ready to send to them the moment they ask – which could be anywhere from 5 minutes after you send the query to, a much more likely, never.

Its an interesting process, and I can see how a lot of people would be so intimidated by it to just forgo traditional publishing all together and self publish. I don’t want to do that yet.

So, my next step is to have a fully edited version of my first book. I’m pretty happy with my story, but I started reading through it again, and just… whoa. It’s been about 6 months since I finished it, and there’s already so many tweaks I want to do, not to mention all the grammar errors that slipped through the first (and second, third, forth) read-through. I’ve thought about asking someone to help, but… I don’t know many people who are really involved in this stuff. And I’m not great at making friends.

Maybe that should be my first goal before trying to get published. Make a friend.

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