It's my personality's fault....I know it...sob-sob

I just received a rejection for a partial and I know it was not a form. I was told how excited the agent was when he saw this project, and he still thinks I've really stumbled across a fun and unique project, but he had to pass. He said the premise is very interesting but that he felt my writing was a bit too forced and over-the-top. I wrote him an e-mail asking for an explanation of "forced and the over-the-top". Perhaps I just suck at writing and I blame it on my over-the-top personality. I never was one who could just say "the dog ran into the street and got killed". I've got to go into how fast he was going, what kind of car, how many intestines flew out of his body and how long they were. It's 2:30 p.m. here and I do believe I'm ready for a margarita. I hope he responds because at this point perhaps I should just put the ole cap on the pen and hang up my writing shoes. But then I could just be reacting too over-the-top. This is the first manuscript I've ever seriously tried to get published and maybe I just need to face the fact I can keep my friends entertained with my over-the-top stories, but when it comes to writing I don't have what it takes. Where's that tequila bottle.....to hell with the mixer!

He just e-mailed me back and I do feel a bit better. He told me that it would fit more into a fiction market than anything else, and by the over the top writing, he meant it sounded like "modern fiction". He did say he felt I was doing too much with the "myth sounding" type of writing, whatever in the hell that means. He also said not to dump it, play around with it and put it in another market. I was trying to market as paranormal romance, but perhaps I should look at fantasy. I don't know where to market this book........oh tequila I love you.

Thanks everyone. The tequila is gooooooooooooooood!