I'll simply add that just becuase an agent doesn't give you a personal response/specific reason for the rejection, it doesn't mean that s/he does that on all fulls. Only that s/he didn't feel strongly enough about the manuscript that s/he could articulate specific reasons.
There are plenty of times I send a very vague rejection to an author becuase I don't connect with the character/voice, but I don't specifically say that becuase it's not that there is something that is wrong with the character/voice, only that it didn't click for me. If I only read two chapters and don't feel that strongly, and send along a rejection saying I didn't connect with her character or the voice didn't work for me, I would hate for a writer to think, "crap! My character sucks, time for rewrites!"
Probably one or two out of every five full MS passes I send are vague, "didn't fall in love" types, and then the others are specific, sometimes quite long. I just sent one this morning that was 5-6 paragraphs.
There are plenty of times I send a very vague rejection to an author becuase I don't connect with the character/voice, but I don't specifically say that becuase it's not that there is something that is wrong with the character/voice, only that it didn't click for me. If I only read two chapters and don't feel that strongly, and send along a rejection saying I didn't connect with her character or the voice didn't work for me, I would hate for a writer to think, "crap! My character sucks, time for rewrites!"
Probably one or two out of every five full MS passes I send are vague, "didn't fall in love" types, and then the others are specific, sometimes quite long. I just sent one this morning that was 5-6 paragraphs.