Purgatory's Pit of Doom

Cricket18 · Mar 14, 2011

(((Pit)))

Cripes, it's stinky in these parts, er, stinkier than usual.

Can't believe I'm doing this, but I'm shelving my MG after only 40 or so queries. I think I may try again at some point, but right now it feels like a lesson in futility.

Still sick. Good news: not pneumonia. Bad news: (direct quote from my doctor) "Yep, you've got a virus."

He actually volunteered to write me a doctor's note to stay home for 2 days. :Wha:

mario_c · Mar 14, 2011

clare said:
I was thinking the same thing... and even though I'm not Christian either, I loved A Christmas Story.

I got an R today which really hurt me for the first time. Not because I really expected her to request, not because I'd hoped she'd remember that we had corresponded and mention it. Not because I thought I did a great job tailoring my query or because I was so enthusiastic about my newly rewritten opening; it was all these things together with the beginning of losing hope. Seventeen form rejections, and not one request?

I am feeling teenaged and lachrymose. I feel like relabeling the folders in my email to say things like "Crushed Dreams" (rejections), or "Hopeless Pining (sent)" like a faery kingdom in Jonathan Strange. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, you must read it).

And I hope we all will be feeling better soon. The prolonged illness just adds to the melancholy.

ETA: Just writing that made me feel better!

I like that - "Teenaged and lachrymose". That would make sense even if I didn't know what that meant.
I have an eMail folder called "Query Fail". 250 Rs and growing, with 400 silent rejections in the plain "Sent Queries" folder. All for four requests. (This is for five query worthy scripts over the course of as many years, so it sounds worse than it is. But still.)

Leigh.Lyons · Mar 14, 2011

soulcascade said:
LOL PoP we're so practical down here and woot for getting work on your film done

LOL Leigh shall I convert and tremble in fear then, or not and just accept my pitty fate?

Seems like a case of false alternatives when you put it that way :tongue

kellion92 · Mar 14, 2011

(((Cricket)))

(((Mario)))

clare · Mar 14, 2011

Cricket18 said:
(((Pit)))

Cripes, it's stinky in these parts, er, stinkier than usual.

Can't believe I'm doing this, but I'm shelving my MG after only 40 or so queries. I think I may try again at some point, but right now it feels like a lesson in futility.

Still sick. Good news: not pneumonia. Bad news: (direct quote from my doctor) "Yep, you've got a virus."

He actually volunteered to write me a doctor's note to stay home for 2 days.

{{{{{cricket}}}}}

Maybe when you get over the virus it will be easier to go on querying.

Leigh.Lyons · Mar 14, 2011

clare said:
{{{{{cricket}}}}}

Maybe when you get over the virus it will be easier to go on querying.

Damn... I missed a lot today. However, I think looking fro a bloody place to live was a good use of my time too......

((((PIT))))

ink wench · Mar 15, 2011

(((Cricket)))

(((Mario)))

soulcascade · Mar 15, 2011

{{{{Cricket & Mario}}}}

Yikes. Shit Cricket you must be really sick

SteveCordero · Mar 15, 2011

Mornin', Pit

{{{Cricket}}}

{{{Mario}}}

Red-Green · Mar 15, 2011

Ooooooh, Cricket's got a virus. Lucky her.

I for one like Daylight Saving Time, and I'm under no delusion that it makes the day longer. It just moves the daylight to a point in time when I can use it.

Snappy · Mar 15, 2011

(((Cricket))) (((Mario)))

And we move on from sucky Monday to sucky Tuesday. And yes, I have dubbed sucky a word!

soulcascade · Mar 15, 2011

*yawn* Sucky Tuesday and it's evil cohort 'Daylight Savings Time' are whooping my buttocks

Snappy · Mar 15, 2011

soulcascade said:
*yawn* Sucky Tuesday and it's evil cohort 'Daylight Savings Time' are whooping my buttocks

Me too! Damn farmers.

Cricket18 · Mar 15, 2011

Got sick on Friday, feel 80% today. Is that abnormal?? Suddenly I'm worried. My doc says most viruses last 5-10 days. Not that I've ever claimed to be normal....

kellion92 · Mar 15, 2011

Some viruses pass super fast -- they call them 24-hour bugs for a reason. Glad you're on the mend. Maybe strong enough to send queries? If you're already nauseated and miserable, why not?

ink wench · Mar 15, 2011

Cricket, sometimes being abnormal is good. Glad you're feeling better!

kellion92 said:
Maybe strong enough to send queries? If you're already nauseated and miserable, why not?

PrincessofPersia · Mar 15, 2011

Cricket18 said:
Got sick on Friday, feel 80% today. Is that abnormal?? Suddenly I'm worried. My doc says most viruses last 5-10 days. Not that I've ever claimed to be normal....

Everyone's immune system is different. I had the swine flu last year and was only out of commission for two days. It was a tremendously horrible two days, but by the end of the second day, I was well enough that I could have gone to class or work or whatever. And then I've had colds last months. *shrug*

soulcascade · Mar 15, 2011

What PoP said. {{{Cricket}}} FWIW if you got sick on Friday (presumably Friday that just passed) then that's 'only' five days, right? that's still in the 'normal' range according to your doctor *dodges wadded up Kleenex that Cricket threw at my head*

Leigh.Lyons · Mar 15, 2011

kellion92 said:
Some viruses pass super fast -- they call them 24-hour bugs for a reason. Glad you're on the mend. Maybe strong enough to send queries? If you're already nauseated and miserable, why not?

Leigh.Lyons · Mar 15, 2011

RedScylla said:
Ooooooh, Cricket's got a virus. Lucky her.

I for one like Daylight Saving Time, and I'm under no delusion that it makes the day longer. It just moves the daylight to a point in time when I can use it.

I like it too.... but then I don't have to be to work at a specific time or anything. My boyfriend usually has to get up at 6:30 to get to class on time.... That would be so-o much harder if he didn't have a week to adjust himself to DST.

Cricket18 · Mar 15, 2011

kellion92 said:
Some viruses pass super fast -- they call them 24-hour bugs for a reason. Glad you're on the mend. Maybe strong enough to send queries? If you're already nauseated and miserable, why not?

WIN.

Soul-nah, it's just weirding me out because people keep saying, "You're still sick?" as if it's been weeks, not days.

I almost broke down and sent a query last night on my MG. I'm torn. I owe it to my characters, but I also think the ms could wait. Stoopid market.

Leigh.Lyons · Mar 15, 2011

soulcascade said:
What PoP said. {{{Cricket}}} FWIW if you got sick on Friday (presumably Friday that just passed) then that's 'only' five days, right? that's still in the 'normal' range according to your doctor *dodges wadded up Kleenex that Cricket threw at my head*

*cowers with you* I was thinking the same thing....

kellion92 · Mar 15, 2011

Cricket, I sent queries out too. Felt excited then ashamed of myself -- yep, it's an addiction.

ink wench · Mar 15, 2011

kellion92 said:
Felt excited then ashamed of myself -- yep, it's an addiction.

Oy, that's exactly what it feels like. OTOH, when I stop sending them, I feel like a quitter.

Leigh.Lyons · Mar 15, 2011

Cricket18 said:
WIN.

Soul-nah, it's just weirding me out because people keep saying, "You're still sick?" as if it's been weeks, not days.

I almost broke down and sent a query last night on my MG. I'm torn. I owe it to my characters, but I also think the ms could wait. Stoopid market.

Well, the worst thing you could do is try to edit it now. I did that with a high fever (I spike them every time I get sick) and it was a disaster. I had to go back and undo everything I had edited. And mind you, I had "fixed" a lot.

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