Since no one in their right mind is sitting eagerly at their desks, waiting for emails to come over the wire, urgently scrambling to answer them, hoping for one more proposal to read over the weekend, or one more query to analyze before knocking down to the corner market for weekend pie, I went ahead and sent out my proposal to the two agents who expressed interest, and then queried nine more agents.

In this way, I can be sure that my email will be one of 4830 sitting in those 11 inboxes on Monday morning. Not so bright. But then, on the other hand, anyone out there who is biding their time, waiting for me to do work, can also know that I will be starting on it this weekend, rather than fiddling around with this or that sentence all weekend and then starting on your job on Monday, after I send out my emails at 9:36.

Long sentences. I used up all my succcintitude.

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