Put it Out There
Lately I’ve been putting it out there. I figure, if I keep putting it out there, eventually it will come back to me.
What exactly have I been ‘putting out there’ you may ask?
Well, I have been critiquing other people’s writing. I have been active in online writing communities. I have been asking agents questions on their new blogs and making comments on their posts. I have given Query Shark my query to slice and dice. (No slicing or dicing yet, but others I have told about QS have had their’s sliced and diced. Oh, pick me already!) I have been entering contests (like the RWA Grand Beginnings Contest and Nathan Bransford’s blog contest (pick me, pick me!). I have also answered another writer’s research questions for her upcoming article. I’ve bought and read the book of a writer who was kind enough to comment on one of my blog posts (funny book with the most unappealing sex scene ever. Also very humourous voice! Read it.). I’ve spread the word about Brenda Novak’s online auction (which includes critiques galore which are sadly waaaaaay out of my price range). I’m putting it out there. I’m trying to be a helpful, share the info kind of gal.
One day it shall come back. One day Karma will look at me and hand me an opportunity. And hopefully I won’t be asleep and I can seize that opportunity because I am pretty sure I am on the right path, I just haven’t reached the right town yet.
Oh please, oh please pick me.
