Moving On

There’s one particular manuscript that I’ve been working on regularly for a couple years. Before that, I would work on it once in a while in a rotation of several picture book and scripts I’ve worked on.

I love it.

It’s probably my best manuscript.

I’ve gotten a rewrite and resubmit, it’s made it to the acquisitions table of a small publishing company- though, ultimately, rejected- and it’s gotten a couple positive and personalized rejections.

I just got an incredible, in depth critique that I won from an agent. It was filled with some excellent, in depth advice, and reasons why she rejected it. I did like that in the couple e-mails she sent she called me by the main character’s name, which sounds and looks nothing like my own. I took that as a slight positive (hey, I can cling to little things if I want!).

But, I was overwhelmed by everything in it. I’ve made plans for what to do, how to tackle it, but I keep putting it off.

Finally, earlier today, I decided it was time to shelve the MS and work on other things. It felt like it was holding me back from working on other manuscripts.

It’s definitely NOT gone for ever, just a couple months. Then, I’ll tackle it.