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Today, after feeling awful and wondering if I'm going down the right path in my life, I finally, finally, received my very first personal rejection!
I still can't compare to a large number of people here who have had numerous personal rejections, requests for partials and fulls or have actually gotten the agent but couldn't get a publisher, but this is my victory.
Someone actually took the time to tell me why they were rejecting the story instead of just throwing a copy and paste email at me. They thought the story was interesting, but the word count (102,000) was too large for YA (even though it's fantasy) and my writing wasn't quite up to the level it needs to be.
I nearly shed tears of joy. It felt so good to hear an agent's feedback for the first time ever. My dad thought I was acting stupid (we got into an argument when I told him I couldn't ask if they'd accept the story if I lowered the word count, because they didn't offer me to resubmit) for being so happy about a personalized rejection, but he doesn't understand the business, anyway, so I'm not surprised.
I still can't compare to a large number of people here who have had numerous personal rejections, requests for partials and fulls or have actually gotten the agent but couldn't get a publisher, but this is my victory.
Someone actually took the time to tell me why they were rejecting the story instead of just throwing a copy and paste email at me. They thought the story was interesting, but the word count (102,000) was too large for YA (even though it's fantasy) and my writing wasn't quite up to the level it needs to be.
I nearly shed tears of joy. It felt so good to hear an agent's feedback for the first time ever. My dad thought I was acting stupid (we got into an argument when I told him I couldn't ask if they'd accept the story if I lowered the word count, because they didn't offer me to resubmit) for being so happy about a personalized rejection, but he doesn't understand the business, anyway, so I'm not surprised.