Things to Do While Waiting to Hear From Agents- Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

Waiting for agents to reply to your query letters can be agonizing. It seems like it takes forever. You put so much time into writing and editing, and then weeks tick by and you hear nothing.

I learned that things like pacing the floor, checking my e-mail every chance I could, and lying haphazardly on the couch while staring at the ceiling weren’t very helpful in the waiting process. I started to read blogs and reread my writing books. Several of them mentioned that reading was a great way to give your brain a breather from writing, and to pass the time while waiting to hear from agents.

I flipped through a few books here and there, but I wasn’t excited to be reading until I came across the Rory Gilmore reading challenge.

I LOVE the Gilmore girls. I love their enormous coffee cups, their eating habits (lettuce essence on a hamburger satisfies vegetable requirements), and their mandatory Friday night dinners.  My favorite quote also comes from that show. I quote it at least once a week as I’m urging my rural internet to work.

So when I saw Gilmore Girls and reading, I had to check it out!

http://www.listchallenges.com/rory-gilmore-reading-challenge

My score was a 51, so I have a lot of reading to do! Thanks to this challenge, I’ve swapped ceiling staring for book reading, and have had a lot of fun in the process!

Just for fun:

RORY: Thirteen million volumes? I've read like, what, three hundred books in my entire life and I'm already sixteen? Do you know how long it would take me to read thirteen million books?

LORELAI: But honey, you don't have to read every one of them. "Tuesday's with Morrie?" Skip that. "Who Moved My Cheese?" Just stuff you already know.


RORY: Okay, but every kid coming to Harvard is inevitably reading books, and different books, and I want to be able to converse intelligently with each of them and I can't do that unless I read books, at least a few from every genre and sub-genre.