Mailed the requested materials off to the agent priority mail this afternoon, and then sent an email thanking them for their interest and consideration. Letting go of outcome starts right here…
Two submissions for two separate projects in a single week, one solicited and one contest entry/New year’s resolution.
Not bad.

After way too many late nights in the last two weeks, sleep calls.

Stayed up until 12:30 AM on Tuesday, finished a screenplay for the Nicholl’s competition, and placed it in the mail at 3:34 PM today. Which is good because it meant I did fulfill 1/2 of my contest entry resolution for 2007–the deadline for the second contest is December.

Now besides hitting a goal, today is notable because an email from an agent requesting a partial manuscript arrived at 5:07 PM; it’s one I did not query directly. I actually contacted another member of this agency.

Pure sweetness for the following reasons:

1) Three chapters and a query letter survived a team of assistants, who thought enough of the story to ask their boss.

2) Senior agent read and passed, and instead of tossing it into the SASE and then a mailbox, recommended it to their colleague.

3) Colleague read the sample chapters and query, then contacted me directly.

4) Agent requested a fairly substantial sized partial, knowing what my writing looks like, lessening the chance I oversold the project and disappointed us both.

Letting go works for me, when I allow it to.

Or maybe it happened because I jumped out of a plane…