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FEELINGS OF REJECTION

December 20th, 2002 at 1:15 pm | Writing

I got my first rejection letter day! It’s from “Asimov’s Science Fiction” and it’s in response to REBIRTH, the story I sent them in October. It basically says that my submission is not what they’re looking for at this time for various reasons, but I should send them any new work I produce in the future because they are always interested in blah blah blah…

You get the picture.

I suppose this should be discouraging, but I don’t really feel discouraged. Instead I see it as motivation to try harder next time. I had low expectations that it would be accepted, anyway, so I’m not too disappointed and heartbroken.

This rejection slip is going on my wall, I do believe. Neat!

JAB

4 Responses to “FEELINGS OF REJECTION”

  1. nathan// December 20th, 2002 at 3:45 pm

    man, fuck them. if asimov were alive, i’m sure he’d accept it. what you need to do is follow the “black market” to get your stuff published and made into a movie. you know, backstabbing, double-crossings, treacheries, cheating, lying, stealing, all that stuff that made christmas what it is today.
    wait.
    i forgot what i was talking about.

  2. Toddley// December 22nd, 2002 at 8:40 pm

    you’ll get a lot of those. i learned that in class this quarter.

  3. joshbales// December 22nd, 2002 at 11:23 pm

    We should start a club or something. Maybe the “Wrejected Writers Club” or something else really lame like that.

  4. Toddley// December 26th, 2002 at 4:43 pm

    it took me a minute to understand that that wasn’t misspelled. i’m tired.

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