Stayed up until 12:30 AM on Tuesday, finished a screenplay for the Nicholl’s competition, and placed it in the mail at 3:34 PM today. Which is good because it meant I did fulfill 1/2 of my contest entry resolution for 2007–the deadline for the second contest is December.

Now besides hitting a goal, today is notable because an email from an agent requesting a partial manuscript arrived at 5:07 PM; it’s one I did not query directly. I actually contacted another member of this agency.

Pure sweetness for the following reasons:

1) Three chapters and a query letter survived a team of assistants, who thought enough of the story to ask their boss.

2) Senior agent read and passed, and instead of tossing it into the SASE and then a mailbox, recommended it to their colleague.

3) Colleague read the sample chapters and query, then contacted me directly.

4) Agent requested a fairly substantial sized partial, knowing what my writing looks like, lessening the chance I oversold the project and disappointed us both.

Letting go works for me, when I allow it to.

Or maybe it happened because I jumped out of a plane…