Not-Floundering Friday #4: On Goals. And Not Letting Them Kill You.
Cold Truths, Survival Tactics, and Warm Blankets for Surviving (and Loving) the Writing Life
When I was twenty-four, and entering my last year of grad school, I sent what I hoped would be my first published novel to the first 5 agents on the ranked-by-preference list I had spent over a year building. To my astonishment (and, eventually, regret. Sort of. Or maybe not. Agents are a whole other set of posts), agent #3 on my list responded really q…