Querying
Today was my self-imposed deadline to finish edits and submit my first query. It turned into an actual deadline when the agent I hoped to submit to said she was closing for queries on March 1! I decided to put off exercising and get right to work on submitting the query, which included submitting my first ten pages, so of course I wanted to read through them one more time. And because I had so much I wanted to get done on my book, I spent the first five minutes combining two ketchups so there was only one bottle in the fridge. I think when I'm a little bit stressed I self-soothe by organizing. Regardless, I did feel better afterward. And then I got to work, still in my pj's, because those are the most productive days. I prayed for guidance before I began to work and as I read through the first ten pages, I saw with such clarity, sentences to fix and how to make them sound better. I used the thesaurus, yes, but I found the right words. I edited my pages, I cleane...