Cori: 31 Days

As of right now, I have thirty-one days to finish editing Caged, write a query letter, and write a synopsis. Cue panic!

The reason why I only have a month to do all of those things is because I finally found an agent that suits me perfectly: he likes dark/horror fantasy, which is what I write. His name is Brooks Sherman. Unfortunately...he won't be accepting unsolicited submissions until January 21st. He's fallen behind and wants to catch up with what he has at the moment. So I came up with a plan.

Since he's going to be accepting submissions on January 21st...I'm going to sneak attack him with a submission the very second I'm able to! Hopefully I'll be the first one, and he'll look at mine first, fall in love with the idea, and decide to represent me. Woot!

I even wrote a new summary of Caged for the occasion. (I hate writing summaries, essays, and letters, so this was hard for me.)

Artificial: Made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, typically as a copy of something natural.
Altrius Dial is a demon living in an artificial utopia, fifty-four years after the tragic nuclear war. The world is finally settling back into everyday life. But when Altrius is forced to find and destroy a lost prophecy, struggling to keep his sanity intact during the search, the mask of perfection begins to crumble.

Is it any good? I worked hard on it. It fits Caged much better than my old summary, which was kind of half-assed. This one took hours upon hours to write.

Now I have to go in and completely rewrite my old query letter, which was also pretty half-assed. Then I have to write a synopsis for the first time ever. Ugh...anyone want to help me out with that? Nah, just kidding. I need to do this on my own. If I can't do that much, then I'm definitely not ready to be published.

I really should be rewriting chapter three of Caged right now. Meh. Then I have to rewrite chapter four; after that, the editing process will be mostly finished. Then I'll have to go and get other people to read it, and check for mistakes and plot holes. Caged needs to be as close to perfect as possible.

All right...time to go write. I know I'm going to procrastinate at some point, so I'm going to go get a head start on everything.