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 cleaned up my query, I read a blog to double-checked my genre and remember best word limits for bios and cut the fat.

The hours SPED by! Four hours seemed like minutes and at 1:00, I was ready to submit.