Crumpled Paper
If there’s not a Crumpled Paper Award, there should be! I have seen my share of rejection letters… something writers and cartoonists are used to… so I accept this Crumply on behalf of rejected cartoonists everywhere!
If there’s not a Crumpled Paper Award, there should be! I have seen my share of rejection letters… something writers and cartoonists are used to… so I accept this Crumply on behalf of rejected cartoonists everywhere!
/comforts
*heh*
I took my first rejection letter (for my first novel, “SHARDS”) and framed it as a reminder. NOT as a reminder to stay with it but rather as a reminder that I had TRIED. Like many people, I had wanted to write a novel. Like very few people, I finished it. And like very, very few people, I had submitted it to a publisher.
As for MOST rejections, I think Stephen King might still hold that record, Ryan. Yes… THAT Stephen King. Before he “made it”, he’d gotten so many rejection letters that one publishing company actually wrote him and told him not to send any more submissions.
So keep at it, Ryan! The success of getting publishing is like a crisp zephyr that chases away all the rejections and doubts that litter the writer’s landscape of imagination.
Just remember all these first readers are low man (or woman) on the totem pole at the publishers, and they have missed a lot of great writers and artists who eventually got the recognition they deserved. Just keep polishing and submitting your work!
*hehe* Thanks for the advice, Kona! In truth, that story was when I first got started. These days I have a terrific publisher; Double Dragon Publishing. That same novel topped all ebook sales for all publishers, the four books of SHARDS dominating the Top 5 for about six months. These days, I have nine novels in print and ebook, and numerous short stories either in anthologies or available separately in ebook. And a handful of Finalists and Winner awards for my various writings. (Oh! And a web comic based on my young adult fantasy novel.)
But it’s terrific advice for ANY writer. Don’t give up!
Pete: your writing portfolio is most impressive! Smiles upon you and your writings! AND… I tip my hat.
And dawgone-it, if Stephen King can do it…
Ryan is an optimistic writer… frustrated at times by the casualness with which his work is received, but confident in his ability (without being haughty). He, like Randie, feels that his work is under-appreciated… but that one day, he’ll get over the bar.