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NISCI · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:52 am Post subject: Rejection

I have just received a rejection E-mail. This is my first ever rejection (It is the first piece I have tried to get published). On the bright side, from what I am to believe, you have to get several rejections before you get published. So, this just means I am one more step closer to getting published.

NISCI Smile

funwriter · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject:

Ni, I have lots of rejections. Keep at it.

Check this out:

A copy of a rejection letter my agent received for the first book of mine she handled. Because I am a very kind person, I have omitted the name of the Editor and his publishing house. This is included to cheer up anybody who just got a rejection letter. Hang in there!

Dear Miss Kidd,

Ursula K. Le Guin writes extremely well, but I'm sorry to have to say that on the basis of that one highly distinguishing quality alone I cannot make you an offer for the novel. The book is so endlessly complicated by details of reference and information, the interim legends become so much of a nuisance despite their relevance, that the very action of the story seems to be to become hopelessly bogged down and the book, eventually, unreadable. The whole is so dry and airless, so lacking in pace, that whatever drama and excitement the novel might have had is entirely dissipated by what does seem, a great deal of the time, to be extraneous material. My thanks nonetheless for having thought of us. The manuscript of The Left Hand of Darkness is returned herewith. Yours sincerely,

The Editor

She later sells millions of this title and wins just about every award you can imagine for the book. I think this is a great example.

astults · Managing Board-er Joined: 18 Jun 2006 Posts: 80

It may sound weird, but congratulations! Very Happy

As you submit more work and get closer to the right market you'll start to get personalized rejections so you have another person's opinion of what could be improved in your work.

Don't be afraid to keep trying. Someone will say yes.
~Amber

Miranda Mayer · Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:53 am Post subject:

Indeed; there's nothing worse than the photocopied form letter with your name printed in high-school script by some summer-receptionist.

At least they put time into studying your work--and outlined the reasons why they did not accept it.

That's very useful.
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NISCI · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:22 am Post subject:

Thanks for all your comments. I will keep troopering on. I don’t think any amount of rejections could damage my spirit. I keep writing for me and my love of doing it.

NISCI

funwriter · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:37 am Post subject:

WhoooRA !

sciwriter · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:24 am Post subject:

Rejection is the daily bread of a writer's life Ni. My basket is full of them Very Happy

Sci.

funwriter · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:26 pm Post subject:

Exactly.

NISCI · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:10 am Post subject:

Thanks for the support.

I will keep soldiering on.

NISCI