WOOOOOOHOOOOO Sox!
Hell yeah, writer-lady!
Maybe I've always been here.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Strix - Jul 30, 2013 1:06:16 pm PDT #5770 of 6687
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
-t - Jul 30, 2013 1:46:00 pm PDT #5771 of 6687
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Fantastic, Sox!
hippocampus - Jul 31, 2013 4:22:20 am PDT #5772 of 6687
not your mom's socks.
Thanks, you guys!
Gudanov - Aug 05, 2013 3:39:09 am PDT #5773 of 6687
Coding and Sleeping
Man, I hate it when I'm on a roll and have to stop because I've run out of time. But I can't avoid the whole work thing.
Amy - Aug 07, 2013 4:10:14 pm PDT #5774 of 6687
Because books.
Okay, people, start thinking.
erikaj - Aug 17, 2013 7:51:30 am PDT #5775 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
Two rejections in one weekend. Yeah, I am a major talent. Apparently magazines "don't think of me that way" either.
Typo Boy - Aug 17, 2013 10:48:19 am PDT #5776 of 6687
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.
Send the rejected work or works elsewhere. You are a talent. All sorts of reason an editor may reject a work. Do I have to pull out the list of best selling and classic works that were rejected twenty or thirty times before being accepted?
Typo Boy - Aug 17, 2013 10:55:20 am PDT #5777 of 6687
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.
BTW, I had a dream that I think would make a good story - but not a short post. I've noticed that my longer dream narratives don't usually get much response, so should I assume it won't be of any value, or should I post it just in case?
The short version: a couple who made a great sacrifice that did not produce the results everyone hoped for - so now they have to deal with disappointment and hostility from a public that expected them to be saviors and now has face saving themselves the hard way. They also have to adjust psychologically to having given up a great deal with out great results. It also is in the context of some very bleak and often funny world building. I will post the details if anyone is interested.
erikaj - Aug 17, 2013 10:56:59 am PDT #5778 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
Not really...I've heard it. Most recently about "The Help.My mother told me that book was rejected sixty times."That doesn't mean I might not be doing something really wrong and not knowing it.(And the whole "Confederacy of Dunces" thing keeps every creative-writing student going, but surely there can't be that many unrecognized geniuses.) I'd feel better if I had something else. I don't, and this is still a bad time to get a real estate license. ETA: If I ever send anything out again, it won't be this one...that was like the third and fourth time...this one doesn't work.(I mean, I could pretend that it was just too profound to be appreciated by lower humans, but it could just be a turd it took me a month to grunt out.)
erikaj - Aug 17, 2013 11:01:52 am PDT #5779 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
Of course, some helpful poster at Daily Kos pointed out that our region's water is about to give out any second now, so maybe all my life angst is beside the point anyway. Fingers crossed.