a. Highly distressing agitation of mind or feeling; turbulent mental or emotional disturbance
I have spent the past three weeks writing, rewriting, virtually wadding up my computer screen and tossing it in the trash like all writers in movies tend to do repeatedly (at least I'm not wasting actual paper). Let me tell you something -- writing a query letter is one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life -- far exceeding jumping from a moving airplane, climbing the stairs at the Eiffel Tower and building a new website in six weeks. Mind you, I've never given birth or climbed Mt. Everest. Those, I imagine are harder.
I can't decide between danger and peril. Is danger too bland? Is peril too pretentious? I've already indulged in hours worth of time reading hundreds of different "great" query letters online that I could have spent just writing the damn thing. It's gotten me no where because my query still sucks and no one can give me a straight answer about whether I should put my title in all CAPS or if it's proper to underline the name of a newspaper. I might as well just write it in fifteen seconds with my eyes closed, seal it up and send it off. My chances of landing an agent are probably the same either way.
Dear God -- please intervene!
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