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OK, the proposal with sample chapter is sent after agent had final edits on Friday. I feel exhausted!!!

OK, agent says the 21 pp. sample chapter is too short. It's much harder for me to make scenes longer than to simply add new stuff. Or maybe it's like that for everyone. Who knows.

Just sent the proposal to the agent. Hurray.

Holy crap, Hillary cancelled all her public events today. This could be it. Have the Clintons finally been defeated? Man oh man. She sold her soul and got dick in return--not even.

I thought this proposal was going to be complete crap, but I just reread 5 pp. of the first 20 and it's only needing tweaks. Go me!

UPDATE: 10 pp in and we're solid.

NEEDED: Authors who it would be funny to mention being close enough to punch them in the face. James Frey? (A little help?)

Finished the 1st draft of the proposal. I hate writing sample chapters, because it supports to encapsulate the whole book. I always write the beginning last, because it really is the seeds that sprout at the end and you don't know what those are until you finish.

Anyway, was worried it would be short but the chaper is 20 pp. Was worried I wouldn't have anything to say but I think there's stuff in there that's pretty good. Now tomorrow I will go over it and make it...sizzle.

I just spent 5 minutes looking for a cheesy SIZZLE animated gif. Good lord.

The thing about a book proposal is, you write it and the first draft is shit. And somehow, you are convinced you are never going to be able to make it not-shit, even though editing is a separate skill and even if you for some reason forget how to edit there's dozens of allies who know how to criticize. (Enough with that, BTW.) So I've been vacillating between "it's not funny"--which is always added later, after the basic plot is written--to "it's not interesting", but since it's long I can edit it down to the interesting parts.

I still have to figure out how to make it funny that I spent the day Ego & Hubris was released in make-up.

But since I am still at home all day, I have time to cruise the web and order new plants. Here they all, in all their sloppy glory: