Rejected Again!

[Ulan Bator]

Well, I just opened an email from a so-called 'Literary Digest' that I submitted a 2100 word short story to. It said:

Dear Writer

Thank you very much for your submission. Unfortunately, we are unable to consider it for publication at this time. Rest assured that we gave your work very careful consideration before arriving at our decision.

Regards,

etc. etc. etc........

But when I read the stuff that has been published in this 'journal', it seems like pure crap....Am I missing something here??

 

[RTRD]

Yes..

Well, I just opened an email from a so-called 'Literary Digest' that I submitted a 2100 word short story to. It said:

Dear Writer

Thank you very much for your submission. Unfortunately, we are unable to consider it for publication at this time. Rest assured that we gave your work very careful consideration before arriving at our decision.

Regards,

etc. etc. etc........

But when I read the stuff that has been published in this 'journal', it seems like pure crap....Am I missing something here??

...you are missing that apparently people don't want to publish your (current) work.

The definition of insanity is to continue to do the same thing but expect a different result.

Either become more "crap like" or learn to accept the rejection. But complaining will gain you nothing.

 

[mandrill]

Well, I just opened an email from a so-called 'Literary Digest' that I submitted a 2100 word short story to. It said:

Dear Writer

Thank you very much for your submission. Unfortunately, we are unable to consider it for publication at this time. Rest assured that we gave your work very careful consideration before arriving at our decision.

Regards,

etc. etc. etc........

But when I read the stuff that has been published in this 'journal', it seems like pure crap....Am I missing something here??

I dabbled in fledgling writerhood as well and was good enuff to get some screenplays optioned, albeit by low budget Canadian flim companies. I got bummed out when I finally figured out the business.

It's VERY connections- and favours-driven. For an "outsider" to get published or produced is a real longshot. You need insider friends and an insider agent and the first basically gets you the second.

I loved writing; but the business sucked ships.

 

[stinkynuts]

Well, the only validation any of my works needs is from myself. Other people can say what I do is crapy, but as long as I know it's good, that's all that matters to me.

 

[Dead2Parrot]

Remember the old TV show America's Funniest Home Videos? How is it that with video cameras becoming easily available back then and being present all around North America that the only ones deemed worthy enough to air were the ones that showed someone coming to physical harm? Were there no other funny situations depicted at all? I don't think that was the problem. I think the problem was the thinking of the producers and sponsors of the show. I think that same problem exists in print, too. You're just going to have to find an editor who's willing to accept your work.

 

[LancsLad]

...you are missing that apparently people don't want to publish your (current) work.

The definition of insanity is to continue to do the same thing but expect a different result.

Either become more "crap like" or learn to accept the rejection. But complaining will gain you nothing.

Damn, I'm agreeing with MLAM, but on this insanity thing I think he has a good point. Based on his theory Scroll and TOV are insane and that explains a lot.

 

[lenharper]

Steven King's first novel Carrie was rescued from the wastepaper basket by his wife Tabitha after King had tossed it there after countless rejections letters. She sent it off and (for good or bad depending on what you think of King) the publisher didn't say no.

Contrary to MLAM's advice, you wanna get published you are going to be banging your head against the wall until the day someone finally says yes (maybe this is insanity, I dunno) but many writers have been rejected hundreds of times before getting their first work published -- it's part of the deal.

 

[dreamer]

I suggest you open up your own website and publish some of your work. Maybe add a blog for people to comment.

You never know, but if enough people like your work maybe someone who is in the rejection business may take notice.

Maybe some will even offer advice on how to improve your work so that it can be published.

 

[WhaWhaWha]

Steven King's first novel Carrie was rescued from the wastepaper basket by his wife Tabitha after King had tossed it there after countless rejections letters.

No doubt with the voice of his mother ringing in in head, as she cackled, "They're all gonna laugh at you...They're all gonna laugh at you..."

 

[Esco!]

Steven King's first novel Carrie was rescued from the wastepaper basket by his wife Tabitha after King had tossed it there after countless rejections letters. She sent it off and (for good or bad depending on what you think of King) the publisher didn't say no.

Thats sounds so Urban Legendarish

 

[Berlin]

But when I read the stuff that has been published in this 'journal', it seems like pure crap....Am I missing something here??

If you seriously love writing, keep on writing and trying. Don't stop.

Rejection is part of the business, so I hope you will learn to cope with it. Sooner or later you'll knock on the right door for your material, if you are serious about your craft. All the best.

 

[Ulan Bator]

Yes......I suppose I already knew a lot of what was posted here. I guess I just had to hear other people say it. I know some of my stories have weaknesses but sometimes you just don't feel like bothering to fix them. There's always the 'what's the use' excuse.....

Guess I'll just have to pick myself up and carry on.........A little bit of hobbying always helps, though, at a time like this...........