Comments on: Rejections As A Way Of Keeping Score http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/11/11/rejections-as-a-way-of-keeping-score/ A mutual support group for SF/F Novelists Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:39:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kelly McCullough http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/11/11/rejections-as-a-way-of-keeping-score/#comment-4002 Kelly McCullough Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:07:56 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/11/11/rejections-as-a-way-of-keeping-score/#comment-4002 Lynne, thank you. Everybody else, what Lynne said. James, you are most welcome. Joe, thanks for adding a fabulous story. Lynne, thank you.

Everybody else, what Lynne said.

James, you are most welcome.

Joe, thanks for adding a fabulous story.

]]> By: Joe Iriarte http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/11/11/rejections-as-a-way-of-keeping-score/#comment-3999 Joe Iriarte Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:14:08 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/11/11/rejections-as-a-way-of-keeping-score/#comment-3999 I only recently started saving my rejections. (Mostly because I recently started getting the sort of feedback that makes me think I'll eventually start getting actual sales, and so <i>now</i> the rejections seem romantic--a tale of not giving up and of overcoming adversity yadda yadda.) Man do I wish I still had all of them, going back to when I was a teenager trying to sell articles to <i>Dragon</i>. How cool would that be? This summer at Worldcon I met a couple of brothers who had sold their first novel to Tor. One of them is a teacher, like me, and he mentioned how he had put all of his rejections up for years on a wall in his classroom, so his students could see how he was trying, how challenging it was to break in, and how he was not taking no for an answer. What a cool lesson it must have been for them when he got that "Yes." I only recently started saving my rejections. (Mostly because I recently started getting the sort of feedback that makes me think I’ll eventually start getting actual sales, and so now the rejections seem romantic–a tale of not giving up and of overcoming adversity yadda yadda.) Man do I wish I still had all of them, going back to when I was a teenager trying to sell articles to Dragon. How cool would that be?

This summer at Worldcon I met a couple of brothers who had sold their first novel to Tor. One of them is a teacher, like me, and he mentioned how he had put all of his rejections up for years on a wall in his classroom, so his students could see how he was trying, how challenging it was to break in, and how he was not taking no for an answer. What a cool lesson it must have been for them when he got that “Yes.”

]]> By: James MacAdam http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/11/11/rejections-as-a-way-of-keeping-score/#comment-3978 James MacAdam Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:13:18 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/11/11/rejections-as-a-way-of-keeping-score/#comment-3978 Great post -thanks! Great post -thanks!

]]> By: Lynne Thomas http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/11/11/rejections-as-a-way-of-keeping-score/#comment-3975 Lynne Thomas Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:13:46 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/11/11/rejections-as-a-way-of-keeping-score/#comment-3975 Your archivist says: Hear, hear! Rejections tell a story about the context of the market in which they were created. That's important information for the historians working with archives, who may not have any other way of getting a feel for the market 100 years from now, particularly as more and more of this information moves online, and may not be saved. *steps off soapbox* Your archivist says: Hear, hear!

Rejections tell a story about the context of the market in which they were created. That’s important information for the historians working with archives, who may not have any other way of getting a feel for the market 100 years from now, particularly as more and more of this information moves online, and may not be saved.

*steps off soapbox*

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