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dr_phil_physics) wrote2006-10-31 12:42 pm
dr_phil_physics) wrote2006-10-31 12:42 pm
How Not To Be A Newbie Writer
For Your Halloween Horror Enjoyment (barf)
I'm not a great and published writer yet, though I have been published a couple of times and I intend to make a breakthrough. (grin) But some people just cannot appreciate that publishing (a) is a business and (b) rejection is a part of that business.
To whit:
Scalzi talks about the Great Conspiracy Against Male Writers
via Nick Mamatas' blog
to this rant
While I found somewhere in all this stuff an SFReader Forum discussion which starts out as a complaint by a newbie writer on what a jerky rejection he got.
Oh My!
Heavens to pumpkins! They're mad, I tell you, all ma-aaaad!
Dr. Phil
PS -- Speaking of publications, my story "Dead Forever" debuts on Ralan's Spectravaganza tonight at midnight GMT.
I'm not a great and published writer yet, though I have been published a couple of times and I intend to make a breakthrough. (grin) But some people just cannot appreciate that publishing (a) is a business and (b) rejection is a part of that business.
To whit:
Scalzi talks about the Great Conspiracy Against Male Writers
via Nick Mamatas' blog
to this rant
While I found somewhere in all this stuff an SFReader Forum discussion which starts out as a complaint by a newbie writer on what a jerky rejection he got.
Oh My!
Heavens to pumpkins! They're mad, I tell you, all ma-aaaad!
Dr. Phil
PS -- Speaking of publications, my story "Dead Forever" debuts on Ralan's Spectravaganza tonight at midnight GMT.