I'm trying to be a writer. My stories have gotten some good reviews but the editors aren't buying. I'm starting to feel like I'm wasting my time. I'm getting frustrated by the potential but nonexistent income that my little family could really use. What are you supposed to do when they like what they read but don't want you because they consider you a nobody!!!????!!!!
2006-07-06 17:46:01 · 7 answers · asked by hecatesmoon 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I'm a poet who has been rejected many, many times but has also had some acceptance.
I don't think you can really write for money for at least the first ten years. Even after that, you might get money for teaching or something, rather then from publishing your writing.
Just remember all the great, famous writers that were rejected for years -- James Joyce, etc.
If you want to try some paying markets, try www.spicygreeniguana.com.
Everyone gets rejected all the time -- writing is like acting, you have to try out for a million parts before you get one.
Just keep trying.
2006-07-06 17:52:19 · answer #1 · answered by Christine H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know exactly how you feel. I have just signed a contract with a publisher for my first novel. It took months to get anybody to read it. When, eventually, some did I was told that it wasn't what they were looking for. I had about eight good reviews but, even so, they didn't want it. I felt rejected. The book had taken a long time to write and I felt it was all a waste of time.
Then, after reading information on the internet, I did a little research. I sent my synopsis only to those publishers that published books similar to mine. Not only did it narrow my field of play it also brought in three publishing houses that wanted to contract the book. I chose the one I liked the most (not the best monetary deal as it happened) and signed the dotted line.
In order to limit the rejections (and they always say something good to avoid law suits) try to target only agents and publishers who have a proven track record with your style of writing. If you send a romance novel to a fantasy agent you are likely to fail.
There are loads of good web sites where you can get help.
An author called Stephen Leather has some very good advice regarding agents and getting published. I read his info and it worked!
Remember one thing: You write for you. It's hard bloody work, very frustrating and can be very lonely. But the words are yours and yours alone. What anyone thinks is secondary to how you feel. Good luck and chin up!
2006-07-06 18:09:54 · answer #2 · answered by chrchrbrt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take it to other editors. Someone will like it. I don't even know you but I have confidence that you'll do well. But in the meantime get a regular job especially if you have kids. It will work out if you don't give up. Good Luck!
2006-07-06 17:52:47 · answer #3 · answered by I Care 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are magazines & publications that will publish you but not pay you.....you can use those as references (credits) to get paying jobs...Also, the book "The Artist's Way" deals with all the issues of being an artist & is very entertainingly written...
You can join a writer's club ....I need to do that ,too. They will give you good feedback.
2006-07-06 17:59:51 · answer #4 · answered by bjoybead 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just close your eyes and thing of the good things that you have in spite of your bad luck. Also concentrate on your abilities, what you can do and what you want to achieve. It does not matter where you reach, what matters is where you want to go and how sincerely you work for it.
2006-07-06 18:11:30 · answer #5 · answered by Aman Tur 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep trying but find another job to pay the bills.
2006-07-06 17:50:01 · answer #6 · answered by bigtony615 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just go on, your confidence should be in your unending intent to suceed not in success itself. Sucess is empty, challenge is everything.
2006-07-06 17:51:30 · answer #7 · answered by justin l 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋