Yay, you!
Zoe: Yeah? Thought you'd get land crazy that long in port. Wash: Probably, but I've been sane a long while now, and change is good.
'Shindig'
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.
Connie Neil - Feb 11, 2014 6:51:27 am PST #5913 of 6687
brillig
-t - Feb 11, 2014 6:58:14 am PST #5914 of 6687
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
WOO!
Amy - Feb 11, 2014 7:01:28 am PST #5915 of 6687
Because books.
Yay!
erikaj - Feb 11, 2014 9:21:14 am PST #5916 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
Congratulations! For myself, however, I'm beginning to think I've said all I've got to say, even though I haven't published that much. Fifteen rejections in a row really make you wonder that.
hippocampus - Feb 11, 2014 10:34:44 am PST #5917 of 6687
not your mom's socks.
Erika, In a row rejections are evil and I hate what they can do to your drive.
If it helps, I can tell you from reading for a magazine for over a year that the numbers are brutal and you should keep trying, keep writing new things, as much as you can, if that is what you want to do.
erikaj - Feb 11, 2014 12:23:15 pm PST #5918 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
I know cold streaks happen, but this one seems exceptionally long and has left me feeling as though I don't know my own work.(I sent out a bunch of work over the last six months or so hoping to be desensitized, but it seems to have had the opposite effect.)
Amy - Feb 11, 2014 12:27:37 pm PST #5919 of 6687
Because books.
Maybe try something different? Write what means the most to you, instead of writing for a market, or write something you always told yourself you couldn't. Sometimes you just need to break out of a rut.
erikaj - Feb 11, 2014 12:39:25 pm PST #5920 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't know. It probably doesn't help that my life has barely two parts: writer/indigent(and not really the gritty Carver kind. I'm too weird to write normal things and yet? Not strange enough to get locked up and make "outsider art")ETA: Which I mention not to incite pity, but because it makes rejection extra crushing when there's not some part of your life where you're really satisfied to point to.
erikaj - Feb 11, 2014 12:40:30 pm PST #5921 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, okay, maybe I'm strange enough and haven't got caught yet.
Polter-Cow - Feb 11, 2014 2:44:41 pm PST #5922 of 6687
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Awesome, Sox!!
Ha, that sounds like awesomesauce. Awesome, Sox, you're awesomesauce.