• lioneljay said on Aug 28, 2007....

  Sounds like someone could use a lesson in tact. Sorry to hear about the rejection slip, LG. Are there many others on your nail?

• LadyGamer said on Aug 28, 2007....

  Yes. This is number fourteen.
  Yay. Go me.

• lioneljay said on Aug 28, 2007....

  You're doing better than I am. I stopped trying at three or four many years ago. A friend in my little writers' group has over 300 short stories on his hard drive and has yet to submit a single one. I give you mucho credit for having the guts to submit your work.

• Mamie said on Aug 28, 2007....

  keep going LadyGamer...there is hope...you can't quit if you are on the one yard line! First and goal, baby!

• wombat said on Aug 28, 2007....

  I am sorry, LadyGamer.  Keep plugging along, and good luck.  Actually, I was sort of proud of my first rejection letter. (and only letter!)  Made me feel like a writer, in a twisted way!  I got some info in the mail out of the blue, from a publishing company that I had inquired about last year, and I am hoping it will inspire me to go back to serious attempts.  I can probably afford the self-publishing, at least the smaller packages.  I just need to get to work on something to submit!  Kick me off SC, and fire me from my job, make me hungry...maybe I will get off my duff.   I hope you hang in there, and something good comes your way soon!  I need the encouragement! lol!

  Seriously, good luck!

• carmachu said on Aug 28, 2007....

  Chin up kiddo. keep trying......

• MsStar39 said on Aug 28, 2007....

  Don't give up.

• Daniel68 said on Aug 28, 2007....

  "I'm a lot like Baby Huey. I'm fat. I'm ugly. But if you push me down, I keep coming back." - Bill Clinton, said to Newt Gingrich when Newt had successfully shut the government down for 8 days in a GOP gambit that was ultimately his downfall.
  
  When Clinton gave the main warm-up speech in 1988 at Dukakis' Democratic Convention, he went on for 3 hours and eventually got booed off the stage. Time magazine reported that his political career was effectively over.
  
  Time magazine is run by idiots.
  
  Never give up, never quit, never stop. Be a giant pain in life's ass.
  
  Keep writing, keep getting better, learn from your mistakes, be a better person every day.
  
  That's what you do.
  

• the_infernal_optimist said on Aug 28, 2007....

  Blech. I have six or seven of the blasted things myself, mostly collected during my college years. In some perverse way, I'm attached to them and can't throw them out, though I couldn't say exactly where they are in the apartment. Maybe it's so when I do get something published after this dry spell, I can stick my tongue out at the stack of 'em and then burn them in a victory ritual or something. :-D Do you keep yours?
  
  I'm sorry your work wasn't accepted. Boo to them!
  
  ~Infernal
  

• LadyGamer said on Aug 28, 2007....

  See that's the funny part. (Funny sad, not funny ha ha)

  I DO keep them. And I never saw anything about my submission so I had to ask them to RESEND it and then go digging through my bulk mail to find it.

• travelr712 said on Aug 28, 2007....

  to all you 'rejected writers'. save those rejection letters. if you ever become popular, just think how much they'd go for on ebay! :-)
  
  every writer i've ever heard of has gotten rejection letters. it's a fact of a writer's life until they find a publisher. there are people who go their whole careers without publishing a single word. not what you wanted to hear, but also a fact of life.
  
  but, if you quit, you'll for sure never get published. that'll be YOUR choice, not theirs! show em all and just keep writing, and keep submitting. sometimes it just takes the right editor to look at them, even in the same publishing house.
  
  good luck in the future with that, lady.
  

• lyssa said on Aug 28, 2007....

  Ladygamer, sorry to hear about your rejection slip. I would go with Travlr! Save it and one day, you'll be able to sell it on Ebay! You'll get to where you want to be! Don't stop having faith in it!! *hugs*

• Pontius_Pilate said on Aug 29, 2007....

  Sorry to hear about the letter hun.
  My sis has been bugging me recently to try to give it a try to write something and see what I can do. She swears I could do something with it.
  Maybe I oughta point her in your direction, if she sees that someone with skill so much better than mine is having troubles, she would come to realize I wouldn't stand a chance.
  My writing simply pales in comparison to yours.
  You'll get it one day hun, keep at it.
  

• Expendable said on Aug 29, 2007....

  *hugs*

  Death to editors!

• Alyss said on Aug 29, 2007....

  I'm sorry, they obviously have no concept of greatness. Don't stop trying.

• CamDaMan20 said on Aug 29, 2007....

  Funny, as just a country boy of 17 when I published my fist book and 19  at the release of my second  (The Taking of American Fur /  Leg Holds for Fox)  didn't get rich, but sold enough to get all my college money back and a little extra. 
  
  Maybe its not your writing ability ;  than it is your subject matter your having trouble projecting.  Good luck w/ future pieces.
  
  Cam.
  

• soleme said on Aug 29, 2007....

  LadyGamer-Keep trying, do not give up, lots of hugs and good luck. What did you write about, do you mind sharing. Only asking because I've been looking into Ghost Writers, they are very expensive.

  I was thinking about writing about my cheating husband.  Which of course will be based on true events, I have all the proof; and only becuase I WANT REVENGE!

  My husbands ex wrote about her life growing up and included my husband into her book, (all of this behind my back, and now he, my husband, is very supportive of her and her writing and is back in love with her?!, again he is doing all of this behind my back, this is one book, I would like to see flushed to hell) Anyway my husband wrote the military part of her book, he is  retired army, the book is about how awful they had it growing up, sex, drugs, & rock and roll, (true events that they are passing of as fiction)?  and how they made it thru life and how they got thru it and are now successfull folks. Her book is due to be out this fall.  My husband broaden her horizons on so  much current events, especially the military, something she ignored when they were married.  Oh, I believe she had to pay to have her book published.

  If you have the talent to write, keep on writing do not stop or let a rejection letter stop you, And most of all do not pay to have a book published, let the publishers come to you.

  ALL THE BEST!!!!!!:)  

    

     

• GrapeKoolaid said on Aug 29, 2007....

  Pfft...  What do these eggheads sitting in cubicles know?  They wouldn't know great if it jumped up and bit them on the a**. 
  
  Submit it to many different publishers maybe.  Perhaps a collaborative project? 
  

• silverwhisper said on Aug 30, 2007....

  keep writing, LG. you already know that's all there is to it.
  
  so quit reading this comment and get back to what fucking matters.
  
  ed

• welcome2Operator said on Sep 02, 2007....

  a writer will never be a writer when they never been rejected so, now welcome to the group, my experience is that the magazine i am working a part time contributor just closed after approving my 2 piece and some poems, so can you just imagine also a lot writers in this world?Good Luck...

• jay_wantsu said on Sep 10, 2007....

  well i am a writer myself and mee too got my first rejection recently and to tell you it was bitter sweet.it made me happy n a funny way .it tells you that someone out there read your work and has an opinion about you.rejection is part of a writer's life ,these are the steps towards our success.never think of them as hurdles.Remember "winners never quit and quitters never win."

• jawar said on Dec 28, 2007....

  If you haven't done so already you should really consider self-publishing your own book. For details visit the self-publishing site and make money self publishing. On the sites you'll find additional resources, links and videos to help you maximize your potential as a self-published author.

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