I know… this is cliché as all get out… but it’s my topic today.
I’m sure a lot of you hear this from every angle of your quest for publication. Friends, agents, editors, publishers… they all want passion! But what type of passion are they looking for? Do you know?
Are they looking for passion in the novel itself? Yes. Does this mean that you have to write a steamy scene to make their eyeballs bug out… uhh, no. Wrong kind of passion.
The passion I’m referring to is in YOU and has to be transferred into your novel using the tools God gave you… your fingers and your heart.
To me passion is what it’s all about. If you don’t have passion for what you’re doing, you’re in the wrong business. This industry is full of heartaches, unfortunately, and without a strong rooted belief in your work, you might give up before you reach the end.
The statistics for agent representation are startling when you hear them. Some agents only take on 2 clients a year, which means you have something like a 2 to 6,000 chance of being accepted! Those odd are sooo low. In fact, some people hear them and go, “Well, that’s it. I’m never getting repped.”
Can I challenge that thought process?
If you have spent hours, weeks, months, maybe even years pouring over your novel… then dare I say some passion lives within you? Find that passion. Be glad you have it. Hold fast to it and when a rejection comes in, don’t take it personally and send another query out.
Make the passion you have for your novel, shine through in your query. Get excited. Be happy! And most of all never give up on the passion that drew you to write the novel in the first place.
If you’ve lost your passion among the query process, I encourage you to stop, take a deep breath and remember the passion that got you where you are. Then pick yourself up from the ground, dust your sandals off, and move forward.
It’s all about passion.
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Great post! Passion is what it’s all about. Rejection def. isn’t easy, but after all the hours we spend on our work, we owe it to ourselves to follow through!
I agree with passion. I once had someone say that I needed to take some of the humor out of my writing. My reply was, “I can’t do that! I is part of my passion!”