Well, I'm sad...

majiklmoon · Apr 28, 2006

The rejection to an email query is bad, but not so bad because you hit the delete button and the evil offending item is gone *poof* it never existed. The snail mail rejection, however, is far worse. Those offending words stare back at you in dark black type, mocking you.

Sure, you can rip it up, but it's still there....the evil little shreds of paper are decorating the trash can, staring back at you whenever you go to throw something out.

*sigh* - guess what I got today lol

triceretops · Apr 28, 2006

I sure know how it feels. Believe it or not it's progess. Head up and continue on, my good friend. Wear them down.

Tri

CaroGirl · Apr 28, 2006

Burn it and move on.

Try not to dwell on it. Keep writing and keep submitting. An acceptance might be just around the corner! (easier for me to say, than to believe in for myself, I might add)

Anya Smith · Apr 28, 2006

I'm sorry. I know how it feels. You just have to keep submitting, though.

Gosh, I'm such a hypocrite; I'm still smarting from the last rejection. Get this, I got two for the same novel from TOR.

jenngreenleaf · Apr 28, 2006

This is why I started the Writer's Block Project about a thousand years ago. Yes, the site needs some desperate attention and, yes, I should've had an exhibit up by now . . . anyway, it's meant to put a positve spin on rejection using art.

I'm sorry you feel down about this. I hope you get a positive response soon to lift your spirits . . . or an email you can delete! :Hug2:

DeadlyAccurate · Apr 28, 2006

Don't let it get you down. I got a request for my full manuscript yesterday that could still lead to a rejection, and a form rejection from another agency in the mail today, and not even on a full sheet of paper. I have a folder *full* of form rejection letters and an email box full of them, too. (I never destroy mine.)

Keep writing. While you might never sell a book you submit, you'll never sell one you never submit.

arrowqueen · Apr 28, 2006

Think positive.

Rejections can be used for:

a) papering one's lavatory walls.

b) shredding, to make hamster bedding.

c) loft insulation.

d) wrapping presents for people you don't really like.

e) wrapping yourself in, when your chosen profession forces you to starve in a garret.

arrowqueen · Apr 28, 2006

...but I just use them to let me know who to send to next.

Yes, it hurts, but everybody gets them.

Now on you go - and better luck next time.

:Hug2:

majiklmoon · Apr 28, 2006

arrowqueen said:
Think positive.

Rejections can be used for:

a) papering one's lavatory walls.

b) shredding, to make hamster bedding.

c) loft insulation.

d) wrapping presents for people you don't really like.

e) wrapping yourself in, when your chosen profession forces you to starve in a garret.

Hee hee hee...I like these A LOT!

Jamesaritchie · Apr 28, 2006

Rejection slip

Don't throw it away. But two small bulletin boards. Hang them on a wall side by side. Pin the rejection neatly to the first. Beneath it pin the words: To every thing there is a season,

Leave the second small bulletin board blank, but at the bottom of it pin the words:
and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

This second bulletin board is where you'll eventually pin the acceptance letter.

I have a good friend who got published just this way. The first bulletin board reminded him that he was trying, and that it was simply the season for rejection. The second encouaraged him to keep trying, and he eventuallt pinned his first acceptance letter directly over the words,
and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

arrowqueen · Apr 28, 2006

Dammit, James. Now I'm singing that and revealing my age!

majiklmoon · Apr 28, 2006

Jamesaritchie said:
Don't throw it away. But two small bulletin boards. Hang them on a wall side by side. Pin the rejection neatly to the first. Beneath it pin the words: To every thing there is a season,

Leave the second small bulletin board blank, but at the bottom of it pin the words:
and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

This second bulletin board is where you'll eventually pin the acceptance letter.

I have a good friend who got published just this way. The first bulletin board reminded him that he was trying, and that it was simply the season for rejection. The second encouaraged him to keep trying, and he eventuallt pinned his first acceptance letter directly over the words,
and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

I suppose I could unmake my paper airplane and do that, but it flew so well lol.

Jamesaritchie · Apr 28, 2006

arrowqueen said:
Dammit, James. Now I'm singing that and revealing my age!

I know, dangit. Now I can't get the tune out of my head, either.

arrowqueen · Apr 28, 2006

Lol. Hell mend you! Serves you bloody well right!

Branwyn · Apr 30, 2006

Jamesaritchie said:
I know, dangit. Now I can't get the tune out of my head, either.

It beats the 'Sponge Bob' tune I've had in my head since babysitting...UGH!

majiklmoon · May 1, 2006

Branwyn said:
It beats the 'Sponge Bob' tune I've had in my head since babysitting...UGH!

Who...Lives in a Pineapple under the sea?
SpongeBob SquarePants

Absorbant and yellow and pourous is he.
SpongeBob SquarePants

Jamesaritchie · May 1, 2006

majiklmoon said:
Who...Lives in a Pineapple under the sea?
SpongeBob SquarePants

Absorbant and yellow and pourous is he.
SpongeBob SquarePants

Oh, great! I need a drink. Sponge Bob in your head is almost as bad as having Barney there.

majiklmoon · May 1, 2006

Jamesaritchie said:
Oh, great! I need a drink. Sponge Bob in your head is almost as bad as having Barney there.

passes James the tequila

Well, I'm sad...

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