My feeling it that you are better off with a standard rejection letter for works you don't like; save personalize ones for work you like, but don't fit the market. Maybe I'm pushier than your average writer, but I always take personalized rejections as a reason to put you at the top of my submission list for my next work.
Jayne: Anybody remember her comin' at me with a butcher's knife? Wash: Wacky fun.
'Objects In Space'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Typo Boy - Apr 12, 2007 8:26:11 am PDT #8928 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Deena - Apr 13, 2007 6:14:26 am PDT #8929 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Connie, received. I remember it now. I liked it a lot. I'll mull it over.
Hey, thanks Raq! Tell her to mention you if she decides to submit.
I hadn't thought of that, Gar. Thanks for the perspective.
Stephanie - Apr 24, 2007 5:45:28 am PDT #8930 of 10001
Trust my rage
Did the drabbles die? Just curious. I never write them myself, but I always enjoyed reading them.
erikaj - Apr 24, 2007 9:13:25 am PDT #8931 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Maybe we should think of some topics...uh, one of the challenges I've signed up for is "What I didn't Know"...does that sound interesting?
SailAweigh - Apr 24, 2007 2:40:13 pm PDT #8932 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I like that one a lot, erika. I must go think on it.
Ailleann - May 11, 2007 5:48:05 pm PDT #8933 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Hey, has everyone seen the new NaNoWriMo offshoot, ScriptFrenzy?
Fay - May 12, 2007 11:59:49 pm PDT #8934 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
waves
...so, a novel should really be about 80 or 90k words, right?
Amy - May 13, 2007 4:35:42 am PDT #8935 of 10001
Because books.
Most of them, yeah, Fay.
But children's or young adult novels can be (and often are) much shorter, maybe 50K or 60K.
Fay - May 14, 2007 12:19:53 am PDT #8936 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I'm aiming for about 90k, so that's cool.
(Have had writer's block for ages, and so put novel on backburner again. But have recently had an 'aha!' moment, and am now writing manically.)
erikaj - May 14, 2007 4:51:28 am PDT #8937 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
It's all in the game.