When you finish* a manuscript and are awaiting critique and coaching meetings with real live agents before querying a group of carefully researched agents that might be interested in representing you, what do you do with your time? For the past 16 months, I've poured endless hours, creativity, and chunks of my soul into a middle grades fantasy novel. Toward the end, I'd settled into a writer's routine — that is to say, a writer who still works full time because other people r