Every day lately I have been preparing for this weekend’s Writers’
League of Texas Agents Conference (#WLTCon12)—no small feat, I’m here to tell
you.
This will be my third visit to the conference and each time I
attend, I seem to learn more and more about what I need to be doing to get an
agent and get one of my books published. As yet, I haven’t wrung the bell at
the end of the race, but I believe I get closer and closer each time.
Besides the knowledge I take away from the conference, I
meet some real interesting peoples and a few characters here and there. The
sessions are very informative and hearing advice from other authors and those much
sought after agents is interesting at the least. Now, if I can just turn that
into an agent selecting me to work with, I will have met the second goal of
this quest.
The primary goal being the writing of the book (now 2). I
never imagined I had that in me to begin with. Although I had spent a great
deal of time writing letters, procedures, regulations and the such my entire
career; I never had to put anything into story format.
Oh, I have been a storyteller all along. The primary
difference here being that I likely had somewhat of a captive and interested
audience and could tailor the depth and length of each story to match the
situation. As a great deal of my stories are of a military nature, the
translation factor often comes into play during a monolog and this not-be-the-case
when writing for a more general audience.
I do keep looking online for other activity under the
conference #hastag but as yet have seen very little.
I am looking forward to Friday and this activity getting
kicked off and running with it.
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