I sent off a query, by snail mail, not email, last Saturday to a magazine. TODAY I got a letter rejecting it. Believe it or not, I'm not bothered by the rejection itself, because Rejection Happens. But the sheer speed of it is a little dismaying, somehow.
Man, just ascend already.
Willow ,'Chosen'
The Great Write Way
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Susan W. - Feb 27, 2004 3:40:20 pm PST #3431 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
deborah grabien - Feb 27, 2004 3:49:54 pm PST #3432 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Susan, the speed sounds to me rather more as if they aren't taking stuff at the moment, period.
erikaj - Mar 05, 2004 8:16:04 am PST #3433 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
This is how ill I am. I think I should be writing, but I did one paragraph that sucks out loud so I'm thinking I'll like never touch my word processor again. But at the exact same minute, I'm paging through a paperback thinking "Dude, I could take her." Cause it's one of those women who is thinking she's deep and fucked up, when really, that's life, huh? I know more fucked-up stuff than she does. And I think I'm funnier, too. Sigh. Is there a program for people like me?
Astarte - Mar 05, 2004 8:25:27 am PST #3434 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Is there a program for people like me?
Other than the Witness Protection Program?
Just Buffistas.
You can take her. I just read a suggestion to combat perfectionism by typing with your monitor off. The woman doesn't turn it back on till she's well into the piece (whatever it may be.)
I'm toying with trying it myself, because I torture myself with each sentence. AINFG.
Katie M - Mar 05, 2004 8:26:22 am PST #3435 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
You can take her. I just read a suggestion to combat perfectionism by typing with your monitor off. The woman doesn't turn it back on till she's well into the piece (whatever it may be.)
I do this. Well, not turning the monitor off, but there are certain things - cover letters are a big example - that I will sometimes write with my eyes closed.
erikaj - Mar 05, 2004 8:39:46 am PST #3436 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
wow... That would be so ugly.
Astarte - Mar 05, 2004 8:43:23 am PST #3437 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
erikaj - Mar 05, 2004 8:49:18 am PST #3438 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
No, not you...I just don't type all that well, even after all this time.
Ginger - Mar 05, 2004 8:54:33 am PST #3439 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Is there a program for people like me?
Writers Anonymous? I think there are very few writers who don't feel that way at times. The whiplash between "Everything I write is ashes" and "That simile-ridden, cliche-filled piece of crap got pubished? I could write better than that at the end of a three-day bender" is a pretty common injury.
deborah grabien - Mar 05, 2004 9:01:38 am PST #3440 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Since I just got turned down by Hodder Uk because Weaver is "too gentle" or some shite, I'm all about the derisive snorting right now.
And yup. Astarte's totally right about the whiplash, although I'm generally a pretty confident writer.