Making the best of rejection
| I know that may sound funny but it's the truth. I'm not terrible sorry about getting that rejection yesterday. As a matter of fact, it came as a blessing. After I submitted the scene, I realized it was a pretty darn good one. It was powerful. I kept thinking about the hero and the heroine, and the more I thought about them, the more I wanted to add to details (using the five senses). Let's face it, the scene definitively needs to be expanded. Not into a full novella. I don't see it as something with a very complicated plot. But I can sure expand on the emotions, inner thoughts, and other details to the scene so it can go up maybe to 2 - 3K. Have you ever submitted a short story to a contest and afterwards you're thinking that you could have expanded to make it longer and better and curse the constraints of the contest? |
posted by Silma at 9:20 PM
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Silma said ... (8:36 AM) :
post a commentSo sorry about the rejection!! Hang in there. Have chocolate. It helps.
That's great that you can turn around and look so positively at it! I hope when my rejections start rolling in, I can bounce back half so quickly.
*hugs* and good luck getting that baby beefed up a bit!
Thanks Tess! The truth is that their rejection letter was so nice and sweet that I didn't feel so bad after all. And it came as a blessing, as now I can add more to that little story. *g*
Well, Karen, it helps when rejection letters are done properly. I'm sure I'll confront tonz of nasty rejections on the road to become published.