{"id":433,"date":"2009-03-25T04:03:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T08:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=433"},"modified":"2009-03-25T04:45:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T08:45:04","slug":"i-cant-take-that-kind-of-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"I can’t take that kind of rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I got my fourth rejection letter for my short story Oberon’s Paradise<\/em>, so I’m going to give up writing.\u00a0 It’s just not worth all the trouble if I can’t get published.\u00a0 No, actually it was a personalized<\/em> rejection letter, so it was rather encouraging… I mean, an editor actually took the time to comment specifically on the work; I think that’s a good sign!\u00a0 And helpful too, as it pointed out what specifically the editor had issues with.\u00a0 (They didn’t request a rewrite, however, so it’s not stuff that can just be edited and sent back.)<\/p>\n

\"\"I’m not quite sure what I’ll do with the story now.\u00a0 I could continue to send it out to other editors.\u00a0 However, I sort of want to try dramatizing it… making some illustrations for it (not that I’m much of an artist; I stink at drawing, but you gotta start somewhere) and writing some music for it.\u00a0 I think that would be a really fun project.\u00a0 It would take forever though.\u00a0 Hmmm… not sure.\u00a0 If I start it, I probably won’t be able to finish…\u00a0 (You know what they say… “If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.” (Much better than the atheist version: “If you want to make God laugh, tell Him you believe in God.”\u00a0 What, huh?))<\/p>\n

The fantasy short story I’m working on now is called The Cliffs of Oakenrah<\/em>.\u00a0 The first line of the story is:<\/p>\n

“Never go near the Cliffs of Oakenrah,” her father said.\u00a0 “Something makes children jump.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lots of story possibilities with that I think.\u00a0 So the story is about those cliffs, or really what’s beyond those cliffs.\u00a0 I’m almost at 4,000 words and the story is just beginning, so it will probably end up being another novelette instead of a short story.\u00a0 Which kind of stinks, because there aren’t nearly as many publications that accept unsolicited manuscripts for novelettes… but oh well; the story has to be as long as it has to be, and no shorter or longer than that.\u00a0 Maybe if it gets to be around 25,000 words (still can’t predict how long it will be at this point) I can try to get it published as a self-contained book… obviously a very short book, but it’s been done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I got my fourth rejection letter for my short story Oberon’s Paradise, so I’m going to give up writing.\u00a0 It’s just not worth all the trouble if I can’t get published.\u00a0 No, actually it was a personalized rejection letter, so it was rather encouraging… I mean, an editor actually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[12,62],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-6Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}