Rejected
I didn't get the job at Mongoose that I applied for, which I told a very few of you about. While the urgency of the need for steady employment is no longer there I did, really, want this job this time and not getting it has come as something of a disappointment. Which is stupid, since I knew there were all sorts of people going for it and that my chances were slim despite my obvious brilliance and superiority.
I think my writing has come on leaps and bounds over the last couple of years, I get a good amount of freelance work and my own products do pretty well, all things considered. I get complimented on my writing style at conventions, which is nice, but it's still hard to tell how well you're really doing without some sort of feedback. Unfortunately in this business when you're self publishing you're hard pressed to edit your own work - which is what budgets typically limit you to - and when you are edited by someone vaguely professional you don't get any feedback, so you can't improve. Added to that there's some of the issues I've talked about in other posts where different companies have different peculiar requirements when it comes to terminology, spelling, punctuation and so on and when you've been working for one company - or to your own preferences for a long enough time - it's very hard to switch gears from one set of rules to the other.
I guess it's a confidence knock when I'd been feeling I was doing so well recently, like I was on top of my game, but the rejection had its share of praise in it as well and some advice so I can improve a bit next time an opportunity comes up. You never know, maybe someone else will give me a shot - not that there's many RPG companies out there!
*sniffle*
Tell me I'm pretty?