Last night, or rather this morning, at 1:50am I submitted Project NESS, my middle grade contemporary fantasy, to the literary agent who requested a revise & resubmit from it nearly a year ago. It was early July, and I got right to work. Spent weeks outlining the book, re-outlining the book, putting into play the attainable actions with the limited time I had because…

Mid-August to late-September was Baby Prep. And then the baby arrived. And then I felt like giving up because I wasn’t able to get to it to for weeks and months, and every time I sat down to get to work on the book I was frozen with fear. Terrified that this was my one final chance, that I had ceased all other aspects of writing like pitching and developing the Next Thing, all to follow this one lifeline…

But thanks to a rush a energy, and the knowledge I’m turning 39 in a few months, meant that in a final stretch leading to the end of May, technically June, I finally finished the edits and rewrites and sent it off to the agent.

For the first time in nearly a year I feel free. Free to do what I want. To have brain space back I thought would never return.

Now it’s time to write the Next Thing. Project CITY is outlined and ready to begin. In fact, thanks to Facebook memories being the only good thing left on that website, I saw that one year ago I finished the outline.

But I could never get to it. My Project NESS hangups stopped development on any other stories. And it was so frustrating.

The cork boards we use to showcase the boys’ artwork have been emptied for the summer. All of their school art will be placed in a memory box, which we still need to go pick up, and new summer work gets to go up.

Dante has already gotten to work. He’s not letting a blank slate, an open future, stop him from making stuff.

And neither will I.

This Revise & Resubmit could lead to me getting a literary agent, or it might not. The point of all this is that it’s behind me. On to the next thing. Pitch NESS to several more agents. Being working on the first draft for CITY. Then start plotting out the next book.

You know. Being a writer.

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