rejection
November 24, 2009
- November 18, 2009 Reject me, please By Chris Rodell, a freelance writer and author who blogs at www.EightDaysToAmish.com I’m nostalgic for the days when I used to gauge my how hard I was working by the frequency of my rejection letters. I knew I wasn’t working hard enough unless I was getting at least one rejection a day. This made sense because if the rejections were coming with ...
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October 21, 2009
- So today, I was turned down for a job offer. I won't go into the details, but I could feel that they were genuinely sorry for turning me down. The woman who interviewed me, however, gave me the reason and some advice. As silly as it sounded to me, I actually did take it into account. Unfortunatley, towards the end I acted with the grace of an animal that was two seconds away from being killed.By ...
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October 17, 2009
- It’s been said that knowledge is power, but sometimes ignorance can be a writer’s best friend. For example, I didn’t realize until after selling a story to Proctor & Gamble that “everybody knows” it’s near impossible for freelancers to sell to daytime soaps. It all started with the Romance Writers of America conference which my dear friend Lee Duran and I planned to ...
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October 15, 2009
- October 15REJECTIONRejection is a game of endurance, a boundary enhancing process, a test of survival. Rejection sought or unsought is a challenge. Sometimes rejection is a flare lighting the need for a change of tactics or direction. Though, it is hard to view rejection as a beacon rather than condemnation. Rejection is also the counterbalance for acceptance. Risk is nothing if rejection is not ...
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October 13, 2009
- Another month, another round of unsuccessful submissions. (I'm up to two rejections and a deafening silence so far, readers). I'm playing "Writers & Artists' Yearbook Bingo". If you submit your baby to every single address in this book, and get rejected by every single publisher and agent listed, you shout "bingo!" and stand up, waving your copy of the W&A around with ...
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August 19, 2009
- BFF: Why don’t you want to get married?KACEE: I’m too old now and it doesn’t seem to be anywhere in the horizon, neither do any more kids. So I’m just saying whatever. Just living my life and keep doing me. I have a kid so it's not like I'll die alone. Problem solved.BFF: WHATEVA! YOU ARE NOT TOO OLD so stop talking crazy! So you know when you’re like whateva is when he will show up. So ...
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August 14, 2009
- Well, I just got the email that my novella, "Jewels", didn't make it into the space opera anthology. I was cautiously hopeful that it would, but then again not completely surprised that it didn't for two reasons:1) The publisher doing the submission call is a romantic/erotica publisher and I don't think my story had enough sex for them. I tend to be more sensual with one or two ...
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August 13, 2009
- BFF: Why don’t you want to get married?KACEE: I’m too old now and it doesn’t seem to be anywhere in the horizon, neither do any more kids. So I’m just saying whatever. Just living my life and keep doing me. I have a kid so it's not like I'll die alone. Problem solved.BFF: WHATEVA! YOU ARE NOT TOO OLD so stop talking crazy! So you know when you’re like whateva is when he will show up. So ...
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July 23, 2009
- Since yesterday, I’ve been looking forward to today. Rain, they said. Clouds. Perfect writing weather. I finished a long project on Friday and, since Monday, have been re-immersing myself in the hedonistic goals of Dan, Jenny, April, and Nina in The Year of Dan Palace. (It takes some time, when you’ve been away for a while, to slide back into the story. It’s all so much inertia.) Today I ...
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June 29, 2009
- Last week, after years of writing in snatched minutes under trees, in libraries, in cafes, and other people's houses, I finished the final draft of my novel, and ordered a copy of The Writer's And Artists' Yearbook. It was a significant event. Following the lengthy (and occasionally thankless) task of writing a novel, I've reached the stage of thinking about who's actually going to want to read ...
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