Agent Pet Peeves

Here's a "good advice" for fiction writers I just discovered, or I may have rediscovered it:
http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/Agent+Advice+Cherry+Weiner+Of+The+Cherry+Weiner+Literary+Agency.aspx

Try it, especially if you are as yet unpublished, would like to know something more about what your receiver thinks of your work.  -rb 

I went to Niagara Falls recently,

which was an exciting day for my cousins, my friend, and I. Someone mentioned that I probably came back with a few good new poems (or a short story). "Well, no," was my answer. Now I wonder why not. :^\

Procrastination

It's my new swear word: "procrastination." Like my grandpa used to say "tarnation." One of those.

With my long anticipated trip to France coming tomorrow (yes, a week in Paris) and a plethora of other even more lame excuses, my writing time has suffered.

Upon return, I will have a daily reminder on my calendar for a month to write 2 hours per day before drinking coffee and having breakfast. (ALL the time will be dedicated to further polishing my novel, Sagebrush at Snow-Mountain Creek). If nothing else, it should help me lose weight by forcing me to skip breakfast. Ha!

I have posted on my calendar similar reminders to send query letters to agents and any follow up. Do others of you out there in blog-space have a fear of success like I do? Where does this procrastination spring from? Do you have similar tales or secret solutions? --rb