I’ve done so much. I should feel exhausted. I do feel exhausted. Why do I keep doing so much? The answer, of course, is hypomania, or maybe a mixed state.
I had been thoroughly depressed over my writing, as I sent out query after query to agents, and getting back rejections or the horrifying limbo of “no response means no.” I kept doing this for nearly four months until I had apparently run out of agents to query. (I know that can’t be literally true.
There are thousands of agents in New York alone, but I had been through all the usual lists and gone pretty far down the Google pages.) Yet I trudged along, depressed but pushing myself.
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