tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111268153034999272.post2101954321100859338..comments2024-01-15T19:42:35.437-08:00Comments on The Secret Archives of the Alliterati: Loss, Rejection and Keeping your Head Up, Dangit.Matthew Delmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11452378192874048547noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111268153034999272.post-12250428677608083252010-12-02T20:11:55.866-08:002010-12-02T20:11:55.866-08:00I have no patience either! I've only sent out...I have no patience either! I've only sent out a few queries on my novel, and it's almost a relief to get the rejection back. <br /><br />Waiting on that rejection is agonizing enough; but if someone were ever to ask for a partial - I'd be totally freaked the whole time waiting on a return response.<br /><br />I have a short story that was accepted for publication in an e-zine, and I've been waiting 3 months to see it posted on the schedule. I click on my e-mail several times a day just to see if its scheduled. The longer I wait the more obsessive I'm getting.<br /><br />So yeah, I think I need to find a way to move on and start something else along the query/submit/wait path.<br /><br />My favorite distraction however is Blogging. <br /><br />......dholedolorahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08715849844092553699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111268153034999272.post-50105890999107685052010-12-02T18:28:15.522-08:002010-12-02T18:28:15.522-08:00One word: anime.One word: anime.Adam Heinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02225813532455467868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111268153034999272.post-35872831029440555192010-12-02T15:55:00.505-08:002010-12-02T15:55:00.505-08:00LT, you're awesome...and right. Just keep tru...LT, you're awesome...and right. Just keep trucking and improving and trucking, etc. We're all bound to get somewhere if we just keeping doing that, right? And CN, I hear you on the pacing. That's one thing I very much struggle with...I'm either doing nothing or trying to attack everything at once. Pace!!<br /><br />And Susan, its so true...it's nice to rest assured that wi practice, we are always better than we were before. And Asa far as distraction goes, I completely agr---HEY LETS GO RIDE BIKES.<br /><br />Thank you all for stopping by!K. Marie Criddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08591374827185284413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111268153034999272.post-11286281238880305062010-12-02T13:13:23.192-08:002010-12-02T13:13:23.192-08:00Distraction is the only thing that works for me. F...Distraction is the only thing that works for me. Fortunately for me, I'm highly distractible. <br /><br />*wait, there's a squirrel!*<br /><br />The only thing that helps is knowing that I'm getting better each day. :)Susan Kaye Quinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07348197999397141067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111268153034999272.post-18908268111430712492010-12-02T12:51:42.998-08:002010-12-02T12:51:42.998-08:00I'm with LT. Just sent one out? Time to star...I'm with LT. Just sent one out? Time to start on the next one. <br /><br />Oh, and pace. A lot.C. N. Nevetshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00375714948653196993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111268153034999272.post-55411905984991219012010-12-02T11:04:36.895-08:002010-12-02T11:04:36.895-08:00I hang out with awesome people and move on to the ...I hang out with awesome people and move on to the next SHINY NEW IDEA. It's weird, but if I'm working on a new story it doesn't bother me as much that nothing's happened with the previous one. Of course, I'm still in the stages of querying, not on submission. I think I would be a neurotic nutcase on submission. <br /><br />Right now it's like, if they say no, I can handle that. It just means I'm not good enough. I'm okay not being good enough; I'm either used to it or I can improve. <br /><br />But once I have an agent, that's a whole different ballgame. Someone in the industry thinks they can sell what I write. There's a lot of hope there, wrapped up in having that champion. Maybe I AM good enough. Maybe I WILL do this.<br /><br />And then you realize editors can say no, too. And that has to be heartbreaking. To be so close, to have that validation, to make it over that first terrifying wall and discover that there's another higher one on the other side. <br /><br />I feel for you, and Natalie, and anyone else in the same situation, even though I'm not in it myself, because it's too easy to imagine what it's like. <br /><br />For what it's worth, I'd TOTALLY buy your clever/romantic/boy-friendly/girl-friendly/action-packed/fairy-tale-retelling/steam-cyber-gas-wood-native-faery-punked book.L. T. Hosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448176940211118898noreply@blogger.com