The Future and Regret

I didn’t think that I’d actually enjoy the editing process. I’ve been re-editing The Mustard Prince in the Condiment Kingdom, and I set a time limit to how long I’m editing on the stopwatch on my phone. I have caught myself wanting to edit a little more even after the allotted time was over. Part of it is that I edit by paragraph, so it feels incomplete when I’m in the middle of editing a paragraph, and I don’t edit the whole paragraph that I’m working on. Another part is that I’m just “in the groove” as I’m editing, and this does apply to writing as well.

I’ve been sending query letters to literary agents for The Mustard Prince in the Condiment Kingdom for years now. I would send them sporadically, but I do look back at my approach with a level of regret. I really didn’t put my best foot forward by not knowing certain things like “voice” in my earlier submissions and received rejection. It has cost me as that becomes one less person to submit my work to in an already small group of literary agents. 

Thankfully, I do have other project in the works as I am making The Land of the Wooden Statues into a full-length novel, and re-editing The Wilderness, which needs a lot of work but is at least finished. I can only hope that The Mustard Prince in the Condiment Kingdom will be my first professionally published work, and I am still working towards that goal. However, I do have other projects waiting in the wings to also help me reach that goal as well.