Comments | lcm: Best rejection letter EVER. Or: Tolkien wept

lcm

Best rejection letter EVER. Or: Tolkien wept

Mar 27, 2009 23:54

Oh man. I just got a rejection letter from a Young Adult agent (who networking made me foolish enough to proposition, despite the genre disparities). I was reading along and it was like blablabla, not accepting new manuscripts at this time...blablabla, critique...blabla bla, basically the prologue is dense and unsellable and in parts (GET THIS) " ( Read more... )

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yakbites May 16 2009, 20:38:21 UTC

Congratulations!!! That's a good one!
I hang my rejection letters on my walls and love on them, but I've never gotten one quite that Tolkien-y. LOLZ

lcm May 16 2009, 20:42:12 UTC

Isn't it? And book stuff? :) DUDE. We must exchange LULZY stories of rejection and triumph! Where are you in this great, unholy process?

yakbites May 16 2009, 20:45:06 UTC

God, book stuff. I'm currently revising mine for the four billionth time, and I'm thinking it might require a massive rewrite. I have rejection letters for poems, short stories, and my book, so I'm up to about 130 letters entoto by now.
(They just make the acceptance ones even shinier when you get them.)
Isn't it just the funnest?
What's happening with you?

lcm May 16 2009, 20:54:30 UTC

Dude. I am so there. I'm on (what I hope) is my big, pre-formal edit. I'm at that stage where I'm tentatively sending it in ten chapter chunks to friends for as brutal a feedback as they're willing to give. I've got two agents I've been speaking with that have expressed some interest, which is pretty awesome, but nothing set in stone yet. But yeah. Man, I would be all about forming a book writing support group. :) Or, you know, chatting the frustrations involved/exchanging readings and crit stuff. Because more support on both sides is amazing. <3 And wow, finishing has got to be one of the most irritating things, because at the end, you're always a better writer than when you started, and while editing can make the material WORLDS better, it can never elevate it to current levels of ability. Arg. XD ( ... )

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