So. I have one. Every night, just before bed, I look at it and change a word, change the word back, move a sentence to another paragraph, twist a clause,
However - and in a few weeks I might be mortified about this - various versions are off to four agents. I've already noticed that in one of them I did the "it's" "its" thing wrong. The agents' names were checked over and over so probably only one out of the four is spelled wrong.
Wouldn't it be great to say how I'm reveling in this lesson in letting go, of moving forward, how I'm celebrating this new stage, that in my head there's a big party going on? Yeah. For me, it's mostly that after the party feeling - nausea and lethargy.
Here's a snippet from the query.
"For most of these women it is the last day of their lives. They are not famous. None of them have children. Instead, their stories rise out of the shadowed history of a river in Florida where sweet water billows to the surface from caverns of silent lakes."