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While Waiting
I got my first request for a full on Friday (prompting a weekend-long happy-dance). While it’s not out on an exclusive basis, I have various reasons for waiting a bit before querying further. Thus, I find it’s time to make a list:
Things to Do While Waiting on an Agent
- Work on the sequel (I know, I know … sell the first one first.)
- Try hand at short stories (First attempt seen here, more “sincere” attempt underway.)
- Reorganize a closet or two (or three …)
- Do stuff for the day job (Should this be higher on the list?)
- Consider learning another language (ASL? Check. French? Semi-check. Spanish, which would be particularly useful? D’oh!)
- Watch episodes of Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs (Am I the only one waiting for these two shows to collide?)
- Back I’ve Been Deader (Hey, where’d that come from?!)
- Reconsider languages (I wanna learn Welsh … but why?)
- Ponder what would happen if Roombas became self-aware (I mean, really, think about it.)
- Read “real” books (Got a stack of seven waiting for me.)
There’s my first ten. What do you do while waiting for an agent’s response?