Ron Toland
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  • Three Fronts

    Made good progress on three different projects this week.

    First, the finished fantasy novel. I’ve pushed my first query letter out to my first choice of agent!

    I don’t know how hitting Send on an email could make me so tense, but it felt like I was walking on stage in front of a crowd of thousands. But now it’s done, and I can use the synopsis from that letter to build other queries for other agents.

    Second, I started workshopping a short story for the first time.

    A fellow writer recommended LitReactor to me last year; this week I finally worked up the courage to join and post something for review. It’s a story I wrote on the plane home from New York last month. I’ve already gotten some good feedback on it, and will probably post a second story there soon.

    Which brings to me to the third project: NaNoWriMo prep. I finished the short story (!) that I wanted to use to test out the concept. I think there’s definitely more to tell, there, though I’m not sure if I have enough for a full novel. Maybe just a series of stories.

    Guess there’s only one way to find out, and that’s to dive in and see how far I can get.

    → 6:00 AM, Oct 21
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