Patience...

...is not actually a virtue. Did you know that?

But sometimes, having a little of it pays off.

I'm not know for my patience - apart from when it comes to taking care of children - but I've had to try and find some in the last few months as I wait and wait and wait and WAIT for answers from Agent A and to generally find some balance in my life.

Well, it has paid off in both ways!

Firstly, Agent A emailed me a couple of weeks ago to say that she likes my manuscript and would like to see it once I've made some adjustments! Mostly her notes were about lengthening it which I think it valid as it only currently weighs in at 35,000 words, pretty short, even for a Young Adult novel. So this week I've taken some holiday from work and am ploughing through it, making changes and adding more plot lines. I don't plan on making all of the changes that she has suggested, it still needs to be the novel I wanted to write, not one that I wrote to please someone else. Hopefully by Friday I'll be able to send it off to London once again and then the waiting can resume! But it's a big step forward just to get a response, I'd almost decided that it had been slung on the rubbish heap long ago!

Secondly, the job that I've wanted since I was 15 has fallen into my lap! I start in mid May and I literally cannot wait! It's a job as a Nanny for a private family and so I obviously can't go into details but put it this way - it's perfect! And it leaves me time to write so score all around!

Anyway, the point of this post is to say this: sometimes you have to hang on for the good things to happen. Just have patience!

Until next time,

Stay happy,

WG x

The Waiting Game...

Ever since I was a child I've been terrible at waiting. So why on earth did I decide to try to get into an industry that is 95% about waiting?!

I sent off the first three chapters of my manuscript to Agent A at the beginning of October and was amazed to get a response three days later asking for the full novel. I sent it off straight away and got confirmation that it had arrived the following week (that was the week of the postal strikes and I live in the back of beyond so it wasn't a surprise that it took so long to make it there). I then got an email from the agent herself a couple of days after that saying that she was reading it that week.

And then...I waited. And waited. And waited. And waited.

And then I waited some more.

It's been four weeks now and I'm not sure if the silence from the agent is a good thing; does it mean that she is considering it and talking to other people about it? Or has she already turned me down and the letter just hasn't got here yet?

Only time will tell. And until then I guess I'll just...wait.

Writer Girl xxx

P.S. Take a look at this blog: http://grace-beautifullyawkward.blogspot.com/ it's written by a very good friend of mine, she's the one that got me onto here in the first place! Her blog is all about art and she really knows what she's talking about! X