Just a quick post to say I'm a little over 20,000 words now on my second story, and I'm feeling really good about it : )

I do have to say, it's amazing how many things go through your mind as you're waiting to hear back from an agent that is reading your full manuscript. First, I wonder if she even received my manuscript because I never received a confirmation on it. Then I start to worry, because what if I don't find out she didn't receive it until it's too late and she's no longer interested because it's been so long? After that thought goes through my head, I wonder if she's read it yet. I know that agents are extremely busy and for all I know she might have a stack of fulls to read and mine's at the bottom. Then I think, what if she's read it and has put it aside to consider it? I've read that a lot of agents do this to see if they still like a manuscript as much a couple days after they've read it. Or, the option that makes my heart drop a little, she's read it and hasn't had time to send me the rejection letter yet.

All I know is that, even if she rejects it, I am going to keep writing because it's what I love to do.  And, to me, it's just amazing that someone in the publishing business actually wanted to read something I wrote. I am so honored, and it only makes me more certain that, no matter what the outcome, I want to keep writing and keep trying to get published.