Hello, my name is Wendy, and I am a procrastinator.
I signed up for the James River Writers Conference months ago. I also signed up for a 15 minute one-on-one with an agent to chat about my novel. Yep, to chat about a first draft novel with so many loose ends and nonsensical story lines I’m not sure what I would say if he asked that dreaded question — “So what’s your novel about?” — and I watch his smile fall while I meander through this crazy world I’ve built using far too many words and speckled with um and so until my voice muffles under the weight of the muddy descriptions hovering over me.
No thank you. I have twelve days to get my story together enough to create at least a blurb about it. An honest to goodness blurb. Plenty of time to write it, fix it and write it again. I will also continue to edit as I am working out this blurb.
Yep. I got this.
