Thursday, January 14, 2010

Update

I forgot my flash drive at home and cannot work on my next query letter over lunch at work, so I'm on for a minute with an update.


Novel
After receiving my rejection last week for the one agent who had requested my manuscript, I was pretty down-hearted. As I tell people who ask me how I'm doing, you expect it (because the odds are so stacked against you), but you can't help but hope for the best.

The good news is, however, that at lunch on Monday, I opened my email to discover . . . TWO manuscript requests, one for a complete and one for a partial. The agent who requested the partial copy of my manuscript (100 pages) thanked me for my creative letter. She wasn't actively looking for more fiction to represent, but she still requested a partial. Let's hope for the best!

Broadway
As I race to find more agents to query (I've sent out 26 queries since September), I'm also trying to figure out life crap, such as whether I will pursue an MBA. My life is getting too complicated, and the older I get (I'm ancient at 32), the less skillful I am at doing everything at once. I really want to curl up with a good novel (I just bought Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, though I have no clue when I'll have time to read it) and spend all my other time dreaming of Broadway.

Let's hope I can get back to blogging regularly soon. I miss having Broadway on the brain!

the Broadway Mouth
January 14, 2010
Posted by at 2:31 PM

2 comments:

Juan Miguel said...

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March 6, 2010 11:28 AM
Tomasz Biernacki said...

Hi,

I don't exactly know how to start :-)
I found your blog just yesterday, I browsed through most of the posts, and after reading this post I felt like "This guy seems to be almost exactly where I am." I mean in the sense of attitude etc. I'll try to explain:

I am 35, and I do feel like I have lost my "It's my turn" moment. It's long gone, I should toss the towel and wait in the shadow when others get the glory. Even more - I've lost my job last year and I feel like this is THE END. Everything is over. I am a conductor, an orchestra conductor, and I am mainly into musical theatre. Mainly would be "only". I have conducted almost 1000 times form the pit and only about 30-40 times on a stage in a philharmonic hall. Living in Poland my dreams of Broadway are much, much more crazy than yours. THey are as a matter of fact impossible to be made true. But I keep trying, I don;t know exactly why. I have sent thousands of e-mails, to every single agent in NYC, to every agent I could find on the Internet, I feel like I've done everything and none of what I've done had any effect. Silence.

My first time in NY, first evening, jetlag, etc. and we went to see Chicago. I could not resist. I have conducted the show many times. I know it by heart. I was waiting eagerly every note, and I was so jealous they can be a part of it. I was so angry my singers and actors at home don't work that hard, don't enjoy this as much as those on B'way. A year later, first evening after arriving in NYC - I went again. I even went to TKTS before going to the hotel. I know this is the place for me to be.

You are so much ahead. You are close. You can get to know people. Believe me, it's almost impossible to contact anybody from over here. E-mails, if I even manage to find some, get deleted and I never get an answer. If I find my dreams strong enough to make me try every day, you can feel a winner. You will eventually succeed, provided you have even only this tiny little talent. Everything else is work, I really believe that. I think I have had enough proof in my own "career" that work and determination are far more important than the abilities and talents you're born with.
I know that always you can compare yourself to somebody that is in a worse situtaion. You lost a hand? Well, there is a guy that lost two, etc. And I know there is no point in doing so, but this is akso the way to see your advantages and then use them. And you got plenty.

I think I should start blogging too. Not that anyone would want to read it, but to make myself feel obliged to make some progress everyday.

greetings
Tom

my e-mail: tomaszbiernacki@wp.pl

May 30, 2010 5:19 AM

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