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Forum: Rejection and Dejection

Tales of woe and methods for dealing with rejection.

  1. Sticky Thread Sticky: Rejection and NEW STUFF (Accountabilibuddies)

    Started by polishmuse, 08-29-2018 04:34 AM
    • Replies: 212
    • Views: 16,479
    Trash Culture
    03-03-2020, 09:26 PM Go to last post

  2. Sticky Thread Sticky: New Sticky: Editors and Agents on Rejection

    Started by Calla Lily, 03-13-2019 03:59 AM
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 3,381
    Calla Lily
    03-13-2019, 03:59 AM Go to last post

  3. Arrow Sticky Thread Sticky: READ ME BEFORE POSTING A PIC!

    Started by Calla Lily, 09-24-2012 06:10 PM
    • Replies: 12
    • Views: 25,118
    MsJudy
    09-26-2012, 05:41 AM Go to last post

  4. Sticky Thread Sticky: Read This Before Venting Your Entire Spleen

    Started by aka eraser, 06-03-2008 08:03 PM
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 34,801
    aka eraser
    06-03-2008, 08:03 PM Go to last post

  1. The Daily Rejection, Vol. 3

    Started by Calla Lily, 01-06-2021 05:41 AM
    • Replies: 38
    • Views: 661
    angeliz2k
    Today, 08:25 PM Go to last post

  2. The Next Circle of Hell, Vol. 2

    Started by Calla Lily, 05-15-2015 11:28 PM
    • Replies: 11,762
    • Views: 789,818
    RaggyCat
    01-24-2021, 01:41 PM Go to last post

  3. How do you survive rejection? To hope or not to hope?

    Started by LStein, 01-04-2021 07:39 AM
    • Replies: 22
    • Views: 439
    Laurel
    01-14-2021, 05:04 AM Go to last post

  4. The Daily Rejection, Vol. 2

    Started by Calla Lily, 06-01-2015 12:11 AM
    • Replies: 14,743
    • Views: 1,111,050
    Calla Lily
    01-06-2021, 05:45 AM Go to last post

  5. An Author's story of persistence

    Started by TrapperViper, 12-30-2020 05:15 PM
    • Replies: 2
    • Views: 164
    litdawg
    01-01-2021, 07:59 PM Go to last post

  6. Are agents taking forever to reply?

    Started by rosepetal720, 06-27-2020 11:02 PM
    • Replies: 41
    • Views: 2,526
    lizmonster
    12-04-2020, 06:13 PM Go to last post

  7. How many years?

    Started by IkhlasHussain, 10-30-2020 04:09 AM
    • Replies: 16
    • Views: 654
    Broadswordbabe
    10-31-2020, 06:47 PM Go to last post

  8. Feeling directionless? Is my novel ready for editing and self-publishing?

    Started by LilyCookie, 10-29-2020 04:04 AM
    • Replies: 5
    • Views: 423
    JohnLine
    10-29-2020, 08:21 AM Go to last post

  9. Which Coincidence is More Unlikely?

    Started by rosepetal720, 09-12-2020 09:43 PM
    • Replies: 15
    • Views: 906
    Fuchsia Groan
    10-04-2020, 05:13 PM Go to last post

  10. Beta-Phase anxiety and an unhelpful inner monologue

    Started by KDIvanov, 07-29-2020 02:47 AM
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 772
    ChaseJxyz
    09-19-2020, 11:55 PM Go to last post

  11. Getting back on the horse and finding beta readers

    Started by TheMadge, 08-10-2020 01:05 PM
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 689
    Fuchsia Groan
    08-18-2020, 09:09 AM Go to last post

  12. I have become a watchword

    Started by litdawg, 07-21-2020 02:29 AM
    • Replies: 15
    • Views: 1,078
    Woollybear
    07-23-2020, 05:01 PM Go to last post

  13. Do you feel like they just don't get it?

    Started by Meemossis, 05-06-2020 01:22 PM
    • Replies: 19
    • Views: 1,690
    Lakey
    07-14-2020, 01:32 AM Go to last post

  14. My first rejection

    Started by phantom000, 07-02-2020 10:27 PM
    • Replies: 7
    • Views: 869
    Maggie Maxwell
    07-03-2020, 09:02 PM Go to last post

  15. What a friend said to me

    Started by GoSpeed, 11-05-2019 07:00 PM
    • Replies: 28
    • Views: 3,133
    Nonicks
    05-25-2020, 03:10 PM Go to last post

  16. Why do some markets take longer to reject than accept?

    Started by alice the hare, 04-28-2020 08:02 PM
    • Replies: 4
    • Views: 894
    onesecondglance
    04-28-2020, 09:45 PM Go to last post

  17. Longest Time Between Query and Reading

    Started by steve_vandalay, 04-27-2020 10:50 PM
    • Replies: 0
    • Views: 840
    steve_vandalay
    04-27-2020, 10:50 PM Go to last post

  18. What do you do?

    Started by Nina Kaytel, 03-28-2020 02:49 AM
    • Replies: 6
    • Views: 1,298
    Little Anonymous Me
    04-25-2020, 10:56 PM Go to last post

  19. The First Two Hundred [updated: Make that NINE hundred seventy five see post 24]

    Started by AHunter3, 04-22-2014 12:27 AM
    • Replies: 29
    • Views: 13,030
    Jason
    03-23-2020, 05:51 PM Go to last post

  20. My Rejection Saga: Paid a Beta Reader $7 to read 15k words.

    Started by writerjordan, 12-04-2019 11:51 PM
    • Replies: 26
    • Views: 2,378
    cool pop
    12-26-2019, 03:16 AM Go to last post
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