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meg_evonne:
yes, but mine was quite rotten. It was a paper letter two sentences long and not even signed. it wasn't even from the agent that I sent it too. So--I pulled the entire agency from my listing. So there--we are even now. Hey, it's all a mind game anyway. What was yours like?
Nothing beats the poet who had her poem returned to her torn up in little tiny pieces! Now that was an agent's assistant who was having a very bad, horrible etc day...
Polarbear2112:
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on December 16, 2009, 04:32:18 AM ---yes, but mine was quite rotten. It was a paper letter two sentences long and not even signed. it wasn't even from the agent that I sent it too. So--I pulled the entire agency from my listing. So there--we are even now. Hey, it's all a mind game anyway. What was yours like?
Nothing beats the poet who had her poem returned to her torn up in little tiny pieces! Now that was an agent's assistant who was having a very bad, horrible etc day...
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....damn, thats harsh!
meg_evonne:
you mean the poet bit? yeah, but she did get published and actually compiled a couple books last I heard. LOL
There are always two sides to a story. Just because a person is an a**, it doesn't mean it has anything to do with you at all. I had a client who simply reamed and yelled at me out of the blue. I felt terrible and completely lost because I really hadn't done anything wrong, you know? For four months I carried that incident with me. Turns out that at the four month mark I saw his obit in the paper. He'd died of cancer leaving a family behind. I just happened to be the person in front of him at a bad point in his life. Now, I take such rude occurrences with the knowledge that this other person has something going on in his life that I might never understand or know about. It isn't me. Or usually it isn't me. I can only know my half of the story. If I keep my side clean and neat and polite, that's all I can do. ::)
Polarbear2112:
.....wow.....speechless... :-X
mightyutuvan:
--- Quote from: mightyutuvan on December 16, 2009, 04:06:52 AM ---Well, I received my first rejection letter today. Oddly enough I feel...rejected. sigh :-\
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The letter was from an assistant editor. It was polite, short, and unsigned. He said that my story wasn't what he was looking for right now but good luck. I wish knew if I was writing crap or utter crap.
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