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Rejection Letters

  • 08-01-2010 1:31pm
    #1
    diddlybit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭


    Hey all, just wonderng if anyone has any experience in submitting to literary journals and what that expereinec was like?

    I've been writing for about a year now and have submitted to a couple of journals but have always been rejected. I've always been mindful of what type of journal it is and what they are looking for, but have had no success at all. One of the rejection letters was rather insulting, not only did it have grammatical errors and spelling mistakes (in a two sentence email!) but, they couldn't even be bothered to spell my name correctly.

    How do you get over the very disheartening feeling of rejection? And the nagging feeling that possibly the work just isnt good enough and that I have been living under a blanket of delusion?


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  • #2
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    I've no experience of rejection letters so wouldn't know (Never been accepted either though :D) but:
    How do you get over the very disheartening feeling of rejection? And the nagging feeling that possibly the work just isnt good enough and that I have been living under a blanket of delusion?

    Keep the delusion going. Let Kennedy O'Toole be your inspiration...


  • #3
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,754 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Got over 100 of them when I was writing and got published! Then the company got taken over...

    Keep trying. Seriously. That old addage about wallpapering a room with them may come true, but it's can and does happen. No reason why it shouldn't be you.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #4
    diddlybit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭diddlybit


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Got over 100 of them when I was writing and got published! Then the company got taken over...

    Keep trying. Seriously. That old addage about wallpapering a room with them may come true, but it's can and does happen. No reason why it shouldn't be you.
    Denerick wrote: »
    I've no experience of rejection letters so wouldn't know (Never been accepted either though :D) but:



    Keep the delusion going. Let Kennedy O'Toole be your inspiration...

    Why thank you all...perhaps some day an editor shall take pity on my scribblings. Until then though...I shall write to distract myself my all the things taht I should be doing :)


  • #5
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    One thing I'd suggest before submitting to any journal is to ring up and see if they have any interest at all in what you are proposing. Talk to them and see what you have to do to make it suitable. Then do it.

    When you have done the work, get someone to read over everything you have written, to catch typos and silly mistakes.


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