Confidence, Insanity and Russian Ballet

I watched Russian ballet for the first time, particularly the Bolshoi Ballet: Coppelia, and I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. It was comical, artistic, and well-crafted. I think that the eye has an ability to recognize difficult movements, so it was not hard to see that what they were performing was of a very high level. The story was fun and more light-hearted, and even though there are no words, the actions speak quite loudly.

I sent another query letter, and I did something that I haven’t done in a while. I changed the query letter to appeal more to the particular literary agent instead of sending the generic one that I send to all the literary agents. I’m regretting not doing that before, and I’ll admit to having gotten lazy in the whole process. There is also a newfound confidence in my writing where I can put a little more ‘oomph’ into these query letters. I’ve been rejected so much that I’m kind of feeling that I have nothing to lose. There is that saying where insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, and I kind of fell into that due to complacence.

I started reading Tale of the Genji, which is the first novel ever created, and it is a beast of a novel clocking in over one-thousand pages. It is very well-written, and I’m looking forward to reading more. Seeing different and sophisticated writing helps my own writing, after all.