In Search of the Fiction Fairy

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Thursday, October 19, 2006

Thursday Thirteen


Thirteen Ways to Avoid Working on the WIP


1 Blog hop and read a bunch of other Thursday Thirteen lists
2 Go grocery shopping and read the nutrition labels on everything
3 Return home and consider which combination of groceries to cook for dinner
4 Call your mother who then proceeds to chat for an hour
5 Call your mother back because you forgot to tell her something
6 Get in 'brainstorming position' on the couch and accidentally fall asleep
7 Research literary agents on Agent Query and Publishers Marketplace
8 Write a query letter to a couple of literary agents and email it
9 Get a fast response from one, reply to her and then worry when she doesn't answer back despite the fact that it is now 5pm and she probably went home to her life
10 Consider getting a part-time job doing direct jewelry sales for Premier Designs
11 Clean the house for chat with- interrogation of sales lady in the morning
12 Decide which groceries to cook for sales lady
13 Check email yet again hoping to hear from literary agents

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