Notes from the Quill
Drafts & Desktop Projects
What I’m Working On Now
Currently I am busy querying literary agents for three projects: a memoir, an expansive work of literary fiction, and a middle grade mystery. I am excited to put forth new efforts almost every day, finding ways to connect with people who will resonate with the projects. Many years ago, I taught ropes courses at a nature center, and I suppose my current querying process has similarities: I am teambuilding. Actively, mindfully, with diligence. Strategically, yes, and with a bit of inspired guesswork. Simultaneously cultivating an ongoing sense of hopefulness – that too is integral.
Another perspective is to think of it like a jigsaw puzzle: hunting out those pieces that seem to fit, one by one. There is no set order, not really, yet one step forward does lead to another. I like that vision – it brings to form the idea that the process does have an endpoint... a completed picture in which every piece has its place; in which the goal itself has been tidily brought to a finish. And, at last, achieved. Yes! I like that vision.