First Rejection Of The New Year

17-01-2012

Just got my first rejection email of 2012. Nice to see that the trend is continuing. Once again it was a nicely phrased email that went along the lines of "Sorry, nothing we can do with this." and once again lacked anything in the way of help.

That part of submitting things is really grating on me at this stage. The constant rejections are soul destroying enough, but you are prepared for that sort of thing. But the lack of decent feedback is really worse. If they even replied with "Sorry, but this was pure cow dung." that would be more helpful than politely declining the book outright.

In many ways it is a mystery to see how anybody ever gets published as the rejections come fast and free, but how to improve never gets sent along at all. You are left lost in a limbo of literary wonder.

Clearly books to get published, their are stores that prove that very fact, yet how is a great mystery.

Just once I would like real and decent feedback. At least if I got told, just once, that my work was so below par it would never see the light of day I could stop submitting it and start work on it again. I could improve it, make it better, stronger, faster, rebuild it, we have the technology...that might be the Bionic Man there

But you get the point. No feedback makes you sit and stare and wonder what if I just submit to one more person. Some feedback would save you time and energy and postage, allowing you to improve and fix and tweak and then brave the winds of faith once more.

Alas it seems this is not meant to be. Only this morning as I was commuting into work did I think to myself that I need to start writing again. Not really something new, but maybe re-working stuff I have written already. I think enough time has passed to allow me to start working on draft two of my last book.

The real question is do I continue with this struggle to get The Ogra Pig published/picked up while I start the rewrites or do I leave it now on the shelf. Forever gathering dust as I have no idea what would need to be done to it to improve it.

Who knows...

-Derek

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