Comments on: Writers and rejection: don’t give up!

By: Cathy Francis

Cathy Francis — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:52:03 +0000

I meant the comics not the subject matter

By: Cathy Francis

Cathy Francis — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:49:48 +0000

Oh Debbie,
This was my morning smile, grin, turning into hysterical laughter…

By: Bummed Out

Bummed Out — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:27:07 +0000

Well, I’ve hit 50 rejections now. I did a complete re-write of my query not that long ago, so I’m hoping that maybe I’ll start getting some positive responses.

I’ve sent out almost 200 queries so far… if I run out of agents, I don’t know what I’ll do. Cry, I imagine.

By: Jennifer Gee

Jennifer Gee — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:49:21 +0000

This is EXACTLY what I needed to read today. Yesterday I went from a peak high, to a massive low. After sending out (and receiving) 14 rejections since Christmas for my YA novel, I sent out another round of queries yesterday. I heard back from an agent 20 minutes later (Yes, you read that correctly. Her website said they would get back to writers ‘very quickly if interested’. Who knew that ‘very quickly’ meant ‘immediately’?); she said she was very interested after reading my query and requested that I email her my MS (which I did). She asked if any other agents were reviewing it (sadly, none were), and she took all of a matter of hours to tell me that although she liked my male lead, she felt no connection at all to my female lead and felt my setting didn’t come alive. Although I told myself not to get my hopes up, naturally I did, and naturally I’m crushed–but I feel like I can put the Kleenex down now and hopefully replace the missing laptop keys that somehow found themselves wrenched out of place.

By: Claudia

Claudia — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:46:22 +0000

Someone told me once that I couldn’t consider myself a writer until I had at least 110 rejections under my belt . . . so far about 20. I’m sending out two queries for every rejection I receive. It would appear that I will be a writer sooner than I ever dreamed possible.

By: Anna Banana

Anna Banana — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:24:05 +0000

Thanks for this website. I’ve been so discouraged lately that I was actually thinking about giving up. Can you beleive that??? What kind of writer am I??? I think I’ve hit somewhere around 25 rejections too, Bummed Out. Hang in there.

By: Bummed out

Bummed out — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:54:33 +0000

I just got my 25th rejection today… yee haw…

*sobs and bangs head on wall*

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:28:51 +0000

Hi, Debbie–

I will be passing your website on to my critique group. One member recently lamented that because of her perfectionism, she is afraid to submit or query. We promptly challenged her to accrue 10 rejection slips before the end of the year! She agreed, so the race is on!

By: Kim Batchelor

Kim Batchelor — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:53:52 +0000

Came back to re-read this post. Looking forward to overcoming my hesitation at sending out, and possibly/probably being rejected in the coming year, but this will help. I once met a fellow SCBWI member who told about winning the “most rejected” prize hosted by a local writers’ group. She also won the “most accepted” prize. You can’t have one without the other.

Thanks for the twitter posts that lead me here.

By: Sherrie Petersen

Sherrie Petersen — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:30:32 +0000

Oh, Debbie, I needed this today! Thank you!!