WOO!
Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
'Safe'
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.
-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
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.
erikaj - Feb 14, 2014 9:16:56 am PST #5923 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
Here's an attempt at one of the prompts...I don't write romantic things often. Maybe it's the date today.
A middle-aged woman(although she would probably never call herself that, she knows she is. Probably, if not as ready for support hose as that phrase makes her feel) and a young man, arm in arm, step into the hotel suite they got for their anniversary. “Can you believe it’s been a whole year already?”
He nods, looking as proud and happy as she feels, but she likes it that he doesn’t jabber to fill the silence. All this joy from a relentless best friend playing with the age range on a dating site.