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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Pure sweetness for the following reasons:<\/p>\n
1) Three chapters and a query letter survived a team of assistants, who thought enough of the story to ask their boss.<\/p>\n
2) Senior agent read and passed, and instead of tossing it into the SASE and then a mailbox, recommended it to their colleague.<\/p>\n
3) Colleague read the sample chapters and query, then contacted me directly.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Letting go works for me, when I allow it to.<\/p>\n
Or maybe it happened because I jumped out of a plane…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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