Thanks for the encouragement, M2M. Maybe I should just replace my letter with this macro: http://memegenerator.net/instance/44...TimeSpan=Today.

Fwiw, I am no doubt a writer, as in someone who writes stuff. An author is someone who has an author credit. If you were to tell someone at a party, "I'm an author," the natural reply would be, "What have you written?"

Progress update on different goals:

#1: I've been tinkering, and I think it's fine enough to send to an agent here and an agent there, which I've been doing. I'll sit on this one for a bit, and see if I hate it when I come back to it next.

#2: There's one scene I'm stuck on. I'm writing way more content for it than I need, but I'm not at the point yet where I feel I can tie it all into a neat little package and call it a scene. So I'm semi-draft-ish with the entire story except for that one nagging scene, in which case I'd say I'm in the early-editing phases.

#3: No progress on this. Whenever I'm stuck on the other stuff, I go through the scenes in this story in my head and kinda test myself to see how ready I am to be in the characters' head, and I still don't feel there.

Soooo, I guess the only thing that's really budging right now is sending more stuff to agents. Off I go!