Deleting

I'm still in a writer mode where every scene I delete still hurts. It still calls to be revised until I can use it further, but then I spend hours revising it when a new scene would do just as well and not take so much time. It's a tricky business deleting out of the blue. I've even instigated a file for all my deletions so I still have the mis-matched pieces, but then I got lazy. Now it's just delete, delete, delete. I remind myself not the breath while doing it because then it hurts more, haha.

Anyway, here is my very short five year plan for now, because writing any more than this just seems silly when I don't know if I'll hit deadlines. But I know I need more concrete deadlines in here such: such and such date Publish an e-book with this line. Rather than just my works in progress. But if I never get any work done I won't have anything to sell, right? So here it is:

1.    2010
February 1st: Finish WIP
February 3rd: Finish Synopsis
February 6th: Finish Query
February 9th: Query 3 Agents
February 10th-May 10th: Finish Lesbian Assassin WIP
May 11th-June 30th: Edit WIP
July 1st-3rd: Synopsis
July 5th: Query (3 Books)
July 7th: Query Cleis    
July 8th: Query Agents
July 10th-Oct 10th: Imp WIP
Oct 12th: Synopsis
Oct 14th: Query Agents/Presses
Oct 16th: Write Siren novella

I'm only submitting to three agents right off because I've heard once you submit to them once with your work, it's bad form to submit more of your work later if they reject you on the first work. So I don't want to kill all my options when I get rejections. Pessimism will get you everywhere. I'll be figuring out a less hassle free way of doing 5 year plans and explaining it on here as soon as I can find the information and make it digestible.