Being the squeaky wheel.

Lisake: Wow, you've had a heckuva year! So sorry to hear about all the upheaval and the trouble selling your house - this market sucks. Good luck with DS and I hope things straighten out for you and your family soon.

ETA: Why, oh why, did I avoid How-To articles for so long? I don't know why I was leery of them; I just was. I've been doing mostly Strategy and Abouts, but there weren't a lot of good titles in those formats the last time I grabbed them, so I picked up some How-Tos. If I'd known how fast they are to write, I'd have been doing them all along.

stldenise said:

I got my first rejected article today. Yep, the hosta one. I've written 176 articles, and this is the first reject. I didn't change the 2nd step, but explained why I left it in in the notes. I wonder if they even read that stuff?

I think I'll go stick it in a eHow article, just to be annoying.

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The first one stings! I now have a total of four to my credit and I'm heading towards 800 articles completed. I knew better on every one and I never should have done the rewrite. When I was rejected on a fact sheet, I now steer clear of them. Every time it was something me and the CE didn't see eye to eye on. Now when I get that icky feeling, I don't do the rewrite. Usually I get the feeling it's a new CE.

At any rate, I'm back from a wonderful time camping and left the area just before tropical storm Ida hit. So far my articles have gone through without a problem, but I sit patiently waiting for the one that will make me want to pull my hair out. Speaking of pulling hair out.....I just had the pleasure of two really horrible haircuts. My long hair is now gone and my hair is two inches long. Menopause loves it, but I think hubby thinks he's married to a man.

I could have sworn this rewrite from a new CE was going to result in a reject. Surprised when it went through. Yay!


Um. Joyce, did you name your dog Menopause?

SouthernFriedJulie said:

Um. Joyce, did you name your dog Menopause?

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It took me a moment to understand, but now that I do that's funny. No, I didn't name the dog that (what a great idea though) I was actually talking about the actual condition itself. I don't think the dogs give a darn though on how short my hair is, as long as they get food and love they'd take me bald.....which is what I presently feel like...but damn it's cool, temperature wise.

For the first time, I'm considering appealing a rewrite. The CE wants me to add more attributions throughout the article. Okay, that's doable. Except he/she wants them for crazy, common sense things. If I do the rewrite, every single sentence in the article will have "according to" (or some variance) in it.

I'm not sure whether I should appeal, let the rewrite go, or just shrug and do it.

caromora said:

wants them for crazy, common sense things. If I do the rewrite, every single sentence in the article will have "according to" (or some variance) in it.

I'm not sure whether I should appeal, let the rewrite go, or just shrug and do it.

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If it were me, I would send it up but put in the email that you aren't really appealing just wanting some more clarification. Explain why like you did here. Sometimes the editorial dept. will email the CE saying let it go while other times they may send really good examples for you to try. Then decide from there whether to rewrite it or let it go.