Ugh Barb, I'm sorry to hear about the rejection, but I agree with Liese. Ride the mellow. The right match will come.
That's disturbing. You're emotionally scarred and will end up badly.
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Burrell - May 27, 2009 4:46:01 pm PDT #1614 of 6690
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Gudanov - May 28, 2009 8:25:36 am PDT #1615 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Finished chapter 17 last night. It was a shorty. After reading my wife's comments, it will need work but nothing drastic. She also had an idea for a little change that I really like.
Gudanov - May 28, 2009 9:41:05 am PDT #1616 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
Mellow seems good. Sorry about the rejection though.
Barb - May 28, 2009 9:49:17 am PDT #1617 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Is what it is. I'm really thinking that after this round of submissions is over I may just take a break and not try to get an agent. Could be that I'm just willing to say that publishing has won this round and perhaps, the overall fight. I mean, I've got a fairly healthy ego, but I'm not completely immune to being repeatedly told that I'm good-- just not good enough.
erikaj - May 28, 2009 9:56:26 am PDT #1618 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
I predict "VICTORY!" in your future, Barb.
-t - May 28, 2009 9:59:17 am PDT #1619 of 6690
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
being repeatedly told that I'm good-- just not good enough.
Doesn't seem like that's really what your being told. More like "Your good, but unusual, and we don't know what to do with unusual"
Which is as much of an obstacle, but shouldn't be as much of an ego ding.
Amy - May 28, 2009 10:00:03 am PDT #1620 of 6690
Because books.
I don't think it's a matter of not being good enough, Barb. I think it's a matter of being a little outside the norm in a *really* tight market. Which could change, you know?
Barb - May 28, 2009 10:18:34 am PDT #1621 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Doesn't seem like that's really what your being told. More like "Your good, but unusual, and we don't know what to do with unusual"
You're probably right, but the end result is that it feels like "not good enough," because you hear with a fair amount of regularity about the rule breakers and benders who have the breakout books. But as Amy said, it's a tight market and people are far less willing to take chances right now.
Gudanov - May 28, 2009 10:19:57 am PDT #1622 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
I don't have a lot of ego invested in writing because it's not what I do. My opinion of my draft seems to take massive leaps from, "hey this is pretty good" to "this a big steaming piece of crap".
One of my wife's comments from the last chapter:
"You are a bloodthirsty author, aren't you! I think if I hadn't known it before now, I'd be really sure a guy was writing this. I'm trying to think of the last fantasy novel I read where the main characters were dropping like flies in sudden, often brutal, ways."
It's only four characters so far. That's only 0.236 characters per chapter.
Gudanov - May 28, 2009 10:29:19 am PDT #1623 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
you hear with a fair amount of regularity about the rule breakers and benders who have the breakout books.
I wonder if that is really true.
But as Amy said, it's a tight market and people are far less willing to take chances right now.
I'm sure that's true.