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Re: Author In Progress
« Reply #300 on: December 09, 2009, 07:39:30 PM »
Quote from: mightyutuvan on December 08, 2009, 02:31:34 AM
So I mailed off my first short story to a magazine today, no doubt triggering my first rejection letter. 
  Hey let us know and we'll throw you a celebration rejection party!  First's are important and fun!

Thanks on the links Jeno!  You's the best!
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Re: Author In Progress
« Reply #301 on: December 10, 2009, 12:22:20 AM »
My blushes. XD
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Re: Author In Progress
« Reply #302 on: December 10, 2009, 09:08:06 PM »
I am now officially in the same boat as you Mighty!

Aka: awaiting my first rejection letter ;)  Best of luck to both of us, and here's to hoping they're personalized and non-crushing ::)
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Re: Author In Progress
« Reply #303 on: December 11, 2009, 04:29:30 AM »
cool ktb
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Re: Author In Progress
« Reply #304 on: December 14, 2009, 03:00:49 AM »
i am 17 years old, and have bee writing since i was about 13.
i am working on 2 books and have got complete writes block on both!
one is about 50 pages long so far, and the other is only one chapter :-\ lol
when i can, ill post a link up to my 50 page(unfinished) book !
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Re: Author In Progress
« Reply #305 on: December 15, 2009, 12:06:08 AM »
Welcome PB

And crank one more rejection up on my reject-o-meter.  :-)

Maybe I should go back to my Demon Porn...  nah, it's only one!
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Re: Author In Progress
« Reply #306 on: December 15, 2009, 03:39:50 AM »
haha thanks meg!

hopfully though it doesnt get on your reject-o-meter!!(if i ever finish the book  :-\ lol)
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Re: Author In Progress
« Reply #307 on: December 16, 2009, 02:22:54 AM »
Quote from: Polarbear2112 on December 15, 2009, 03:39:50 AM
haha thanks meg!

hopfully though it doesnt get on your reject-o-meter!!(if i ever finish the book  :-\ lol)

OH NO NO NO!  I got the rejection silly!  I wasn't pre-rejecting yours!  OMG--so sorry for the confusion.  If you track back on the thread you'll see we've been looking for a rejection party burn-a-thon!!  LOL
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Re: Author In Progress
« Reply #308 on: December 16, 2009, 02:41:25 AM »
oo!!

lol sorry for the misread!

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Re: Author In Progress
« Reply #309 on: December 16, 2009, 04:06:52 AM »
Well, I received my first rejection letter today.  Oddly enough I feel...rejected.  sigh :-\
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Re: Author In Progress
« Reply #310 on: December 16, 2009, 04:32:18 AM »
yes, but mine was quite rotten.  It was a paper letter two sentences long and not even signed.  it wasn't even from the agent that I sent it too.  So--I pulled the entire agency from my listing.  So there--we are even now.  Hey, it's all a mind game anyway.  What was yours like?

Nothing beats the poet who had her poem returned to her torn up in little tiny pieces!  Now that was an agent's assistant who was having a very bad, horrible etc day...
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Re: Author In Progress
« Reply #311 on: December 16, 2009, 07:13:05 AM »
Quote from: meg_evonne on December 16, 2009, 04:32:18 AM
yes, but mine was quite rotten.  It was a paper letter two sentences long and not even signed.  it wasn't even from the agent that I sent it too.  So--I pulled the entire agency from my listing.  So there--we are even now.  Hey, it's all a mind game anyway.  What was yours like?

Nothing beats the poet who had her poem returned to her torn up in little tiny pieces!  Now that was an agent's assistant who was having a very bad, horrible etc day...


....damn, thats harsh!
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« Reply #312 on: December 16, 2009, 07:26:32 AM »
you mean the poet bit?  yeah, but she did get published and actually compiled a couple books last I heard.  LOL 

There are always two sides to a story.  Just because a person is an a**, it doesn't mean it has anything to do with you at all.  I had a client who simply reamed and yelled at me out of the blue.  I felt terrible and completely lost because I really hadn't done anything wrong, you know?  For four months I carried that incident with me.  Turns out that at the four month mark I saw his obit in the paper.  He'd died of cancer leaving a family behind.  I just happened to be the person in front of him at a bad point in his life.  Now, I take such rude occurrences with the knowledge that this other person has something going on in his life that I might never understand or know about.  It isn't me.  Or usually it isn't me.  I can only know my half of the story.  If I keep my side clean and neat and polite, that's all I can do.   ::)
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« Reply #313 on: December 16, 2009, 07:51:18 AM »
.....wow.....speechless... :-X
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Re: Author In Progress
« Reply #314 on: December 16, 2009, 12:47:06 PM »
Quote from: mightyutuvan on December 16, 2009, 04:06:52 AM
Well, I received my first rejection letter today.  Oddly enough I feel...rejected.  sigh :-\

The letter was from an assistant editor.  It was polite, short, and unsigned.  He said that my story wasn't what he was looking for right now but good luck.  I wish knew if I was writing crap or utter crap. 
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