Diary of Being a Writer; Week 172

Finding a literary agent, the quest continues.

It has begun. I have already had three rejections. By using Query Tracker I have managed to speed up the rate of submissions a little and also the speed of rejections.

Finding a literary agent the quest continues.

So I am now three rejections closer to finding my literary agent. When I received the first I was able to feel celebratory. In a “Look, I have finally put my book out there in the world and I am making progress!” way. You really can’t be disappointed by your first rejection. That would be crazy. The story of someone getting the first agent they submitted to cold, would be rare indeed. I am not saying that it hasn’t happened but it isn’t likely.

The second and third rejections however didn’t feel quite as celebratory, in fact, they felt, despite my knowledge of the numbers game, my positive thinking efforts about needing to get a number of rejections in order to get the right acceptance, disheartening. They were also form letters but they didn’t seem as friendly.

The weird dichotomy of the writer’s ego came out here. The usual belief that my writing is terrible and that I have no right to go around calling myself a writer suddenly disappeared and this sudden conviction that my book should be the…