I received a letter from an agent in New York today, telling me my manuscript has substance, great imagery and research. she likes my writing style. BUT--she found little errors. Punctuation, mostly. She asked me to do a line by line edit and return it to her. Two weeks ago, another agent from Kansas expressed an enthusiastic interest in my 25,000 word novella, asking that I pump it up into a 100,000 word novel. When it rains, it pours! If I'm going to do both, it's time to add a little organization to my life. I'm a "pantser"--a writer who writes by the seat of her pants. I don't plot my novels, instead I write as the thoughts stream through my mind. I seldom change anything once it's written. My life is pretty much the same. I'm a pantser there, too. I live in complete organization or chaos, depending on my immediate focus. When I'm writing, I'm ignoring things like housework, laundry, bill-paying and yard work. When I'm a good girl, and tend to my personal business, I have to set my writing aside. If I open one file, I'm lost. One word leads to a thousand, which leads to ten thousand and a pile of dirty laundry. Guess what I'm doing right now?