I think this is my fourth or fifth proposal I’ve ever written? But this one pretty much wrote itself. I started thinking about it the week of the inauguration and I started putting it together in earnest sometime last week. I started the sample chapter on Tuesday before I drove an hour away for an all day meeting and then finished it yesterday (Wednesday) between clients and it was super smooth, super quick. I’ve never written a solid 4000 words so easily before.
I sent two queries to agents yesterday and heard back from one last night to send the proposal so they have it and we’ll see. But the ease of it all bodes well, I think. It feels the same it felt to be looking for this house. There were disappointments along the way (houses we bid on and didn’t get) but the timing was perfect and the house we’re in is better than the ones we lost.
Of course now that I sent the package I think it’s the wrong sample chapter or that the promise of the query letter, (which is really good) isn’t borne out by the proposal. But if not them, maybe the next one and meanwhile I can work on another sample chapter or at least organize my notes for the rest of it.
I want to write this both because I want people to read it but also because I’m hoping it levels things up for me career-wise and brings me more client opportunities.
Probably at some point I’ll talk about my great big writing epiphany that I had at the retreat in Taos but right now I have a chock full day of client intensity ahead of me (tr*mp is distressingly good for the therapy business) so I’m just here to say that the proposal is out. This is a stand against my old idea that talking about good things makes them disappear. Either the book will get sold or it will not but at least for now I can enjoy riding this wave.
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