Inpatience and Your Best Foot Forward

Last weekend, I sent two different query letters to two different literary agents. One wanted the first ten pages of a given work, while the other wanted the first twenty pages. Now, I’ve sent many query letters in the past, and still plan to, but this time, it’s with The Mustard Prince in the Condiment Kingdom being re-edited by me once again with a deeper understanding of “voice.” I really don’t have plans to edit it yet again, as I have other projects to work on.

This taught me something though, and that’s that I really didn’t put my best foot forward in sending out my works. Part of it was just a lack of knowledge and experience, but part of it was just impatience. This really is a long and arduous process with the goal being very difficult to obtain. I did myself no favors though in wanting to essentially rush the process and send my works out before they were ready.

I’ve noticed that I’ve somewhat enjoyed the process a bit more having some level of experience writing. I can identify better what to look out for and what to insert as well. For example, I feel that I have made The Mustard Prince in the Condiment Kingdom funnier after this last re-edit. I’m just hoping that a literary agent will resonate with the work, and that eventually, it can be read by many different people.