Comments on: Story rejected – Writer survives

By: Jobriga

Jobriga — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:19:41 +0000

Thanks “LLG” (aka Mom). The pictures on the right are from my cameraphone. There is some way to add captions to them (if you click on the pictures, you’ll see captions) but I need to modify the source code for the site to get it to work. Oh well, I’ll figure it out someday.

Thanks for the kind comments!

By: LLG

LLG — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:01:22 +0000

Joey,
This was my first time ever visiting your blog. VERRRRY interesting, as they say! I plan to be a regular; you have a unique writing style which I enjoy. Very real and down-to-earth. What are the photos on the right hand side of the page all about? Are there captions to accompany them somewhere? Just wondering. Looking forward to more content!

By: Rooney

Rooney — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:01:36 +0000

Congrats on the rejection letter.
Seriously, that’s an accomplishment, if you really think about it:
someone (Sheila Williams, to be precise)not only took the time
to read your story, but also took the time to write to you,
telling you that she read your story.

You should read Stephen King’s ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT.

As a young writer, King nailed a long, railroad spike into his bedroom wall,
which he proudly hung all of his rejection letters from.
Years passed, and he had stacked rejection letters all the way to the edge of
the spike, until, one day, one of his stories was published.

From then on, for each story that was published, he would remove
a rejection letter from the spike.

I think you can pretty much guess what happened next for young, Stephie King.

Cheers.