Well, I think I was among a crowd of folks who lost their agents at the same time, so we all slithered down to the Pit together.
Yeah, I hate knowing that nothing good is happening and that there is no possibility of anything good happening. But nothing will happen regardless.
Don't worry. We'll just follow Snappy down into the new sub-sub-sub-sub Pit.
Good luck Shu, looks like we’ll start querying at roughly the same time. Should I start sobbing on your shoulder now or wait until my first R?
So here's a question for you guys, what did you all do before the pit??I was relatively 'lucky' (and I use that loosely) in that when I was bombing out of hell and getting beat over the head with everyone's good news, I soon discovered the pit...and it was active. But is there anyone down here who was stuck 'top side' with nowhere to go for a while?
Yeah, that's why I left the n0 n3ws is n0 n3ws thread. Everyone was so damned happy.That's exactly what happens. That's why I wasn't around for a while. I knew if I stuck around reading other people's good news, I would fall even further into despair. So, Lucy, stay away if you need to, but we're here in the bowels of the Pit when you need us.
I was on the aformentioned thread. But people actually jumped on me for being morose. So I actually walked away from AW for a while. I could take them. A good number I consider friends (or friendly aquaintences) but others were just barbing me at the slightest thing past "yays! good for you" or "awe, I'm sorry to hear that", so I left and stopped writing for a while too.So here's a question for you guys, what did you all do before the pit??I was relatively 'lucky' (and I use that loosely) in that when I was bombing out of hell and getting beat over the head with everyone's good news, I soon discovered the pit...and it was active. But is there anyone down here who was stuck 'top side' with nowhere to go for a while?
An optimist would say that hopefully there won't be any sobbing necessary, but that would also make me a horrible, horrible liar.
I've only been around for the better part of a week or two, so this seemed like a good place to start. Back when I was sending my first round of queries last fall, I just took the rejection as a part of life and kept to myself since I had no one else to tell them about. The partial- and full-rejections were much, much harder to live with than the immediate "don't-call-us-we'll-call-you" ones. So since I'm at the bottom already, the Pit seems like a good place to be -- things can only go up from here.
So here's a question for you guys, what did you all do before the pit??I was relatively 'lucky' (and I use that loosely) in that when I was bombing out of hell and getting beat over the head with everyone's good news, I soon discovered the pit...and it was active. But is there anyone down here who was stuck 'top side' with nowhere to go for a while?
I'm a masochist, no doubt. Not only am I a writer, but I'm a martial artist.Is there any better combination of masochist? My body gets beat up and my soul gets crushed daily.
Digging down to sub sub basement. Where is that shovel???
AH! There...
I spent time in Purgatory and Historical Fiction. I still lurk both places, and sometimes post.
And I will still be lurking here --- in fact I check pretty much every day. I'm just not finding I have as much to post these days. I'll sort of hover around like a ghost, so if you feel a damp chill, it is probably me.
I wish I believed in Oprah-ism, where you just have to dream it to make it come true. But I keep thinking of the 40K kids who die of starvation or easily prevented diseases every day. Is it just that their mothers aren't dreaming big enough? Doubtful.
Exactly why I hate that sort of shit about positive thinking and positive attitudes, etc. (And why I loved Kellion's book. )