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So I sent my WiP to all the agents I felt like querying and the best response was a request for the manuscript. Some months later I got a nice personal rejection (honestly, it was really nice, the assistant even took the time to say what she liked about specific elements).
Now I've decided to go back and do some little edit work. The version I sent was the most recent after a major editing process. After that, I didn't take the time to edit the edit. Now that I'm going back and looking at things I'm finding a lot of little typos and small errors. I didn't see them before because I wasn't looking for them. Now that I'm just going through and marking errors or redundant sections or parts that may slow the narrative or take it from the MC too long I wonder if I had done that first that maybe the agent would have accepted.
Who knows, its really too late to worry now. But it shows that its good to leave some thing alone (I probably haven't touched this manuscript for 4-6 months) and come back to it and see what I did right and what I did wrong. So after this edit I'll send it off to the publishers directly and see how it fares.
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I got bogged down with my novel early this year, and as I was overwhelmed with work at the time, i left it for six months. It's gone really well since I got back to it, and I feel the end may be in sight.
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