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Dear Author recently highlighted a story about a writer, the author of an autobiography who, after sixteen rejections, “hosted a funeral for her dream of a writing career”.
Guess that means I’ve been a practicing necrophiliac for some time now… 8)
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Only sixteen? Unless the rejections all told her that her writing totally sucked and their were no redeeming qualities at all to her stories, I’m thinking that she gave up too easily. 8)
My goal for next year is three submissions.
Like Ann says: sixteen!? Hell, the rejection training wheels ain’t even off with only sixteen.
My goal for next year is three submissions.
Wtg, Ann!
And I agree with your reaction.
Like Ann says: sixteen!? Hell, the rejection training wheels ain’t even off with only sixteen.
I had the same thought, Bernard, lol.
I know people react to rejection in different ways, but we’d be missing a lot of good writers if they’d all given up that fast.
16? She ain’t even born yet. Wait ’til you get to 100 then you can start thinking about death.
People, people, the author in question feels so misunderstood. Check out the site, download the little article “Putting the Fun Back Into Funerals” on the Media Page. It’s not about rejection (and baby, I’ve been rejected way way way more than sixteen times, just decided to go the direction of the funeral for this one). Anyway, it was done for laughs and fun and promotion of a self published book. The entire world is changing, including the publishing industry, we’ve got to find new ways out of our little rooms and into storybooks (or Kindle’s). Thanks for writing about it.
Mary Patrick Kavanaugh
http://www.mydreamisdeadbutimnot.com
Lol, Suzanne. :)
Why, I remember when we had to walk miles to the post office…use a manual typewriter…type the whole page over if there was one mistake…bring out the silver bucket to puke every time we sent one off…go for DAYS without food, just to afford the postage…
(ok, yeah, I’ve gone around the bend here…) ;)
Well, howdy, Mary!
My apologies—your comment got caught in my spam filter.
Anyway, it was done for laughs and fun and promotion of a self published book.
I think we all realized it was done in fun, Mary. And I hope you realize the comments here are intended to poke fun at the industry and the writers’ mindset.
Sort of like whistling in a…well, graveyard. :)
Hope you had fun doing it, & hope the promo works out for you. Always glad to help. ;)
Ok i have to go check this out.
“Hell, the rejection training wheels ain’t even off with only sixteen.”
LOL!
Very savvy marketing, in terms of getting her name out there.