Talking about the numbers game, I crossed the 120 query mark. It wasn’t as forbidding as I thought it would be. Compare that with 40 odd queries in 2007 and I feel rather accomplished!
With December looming, it is time to think of goals for 2009. With a baby on the way, I might be rather ambitious in aiming for too much. I suspect I’m grossly underestimating how much time this new venture is going to take. I have visions of notebooks in the labour room (yeah, right) or essays on parenting making it to the NYT. Write what you know, the books tell you. That’s what I’m going to try in 2009. Time will tell whether I am being naive or whether it is possible to keep your career on track despite a brief sabbatical.
Perhaps a post in November 2009 will read : “What was I thinking?”
For now, though, 120 queries out is wonderful. Doesn’t matter that the responses haven’t come in droves. With all the life changes we’ve dealt with this year, I’ve got just the right number of assignments, clips and the money is still coming in.
Despite KK’s query challenge now defunct, I still feel like I’ve won.
