Getting a Literary Agent
an ongoing story
I study bushido. A samurai called Musashi Miyamoto has a lesson he calls, “The Moon and the Stars.” It’s his poetic metaphor where the sky is your attack, and the moon is your move. It’s your big, clear move, and the one you’ll try the most.
It doesn’t always work, though. When it doesn’t, it’s tempting to give up. You tried, and it didn’t work. Oh well.
Musashi reminds us that the sky isn’t empty. The moon might be the brightest object in the night sky, but it’s not the only light up there.
Last year, I pitched my novel to an agent. And she liked my pitch and asked me to query her. Which I did. She’s got my full manuscript. I’m still waiting to hear back from her.
It’s like, but not exactly like, failure. I tried one big thing, and it hasn’t really done much.
Musashi would have no patience for that. He would say that I need to try other stuff too.
So I did. I went to another conference again this year, and I’ve quadrupled my roads forward. Not by doing the same thing, but by trying other stuff.
What other stuff? Read the rest here…
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