[stylist] Trials of an honorary Dragon chapter 30 (Last chapter) Please comment.

[LoriStay at aol.com]

I attended a poets' reading at our "coffee house" (At the library) today.   
Most people, good writers or not are concerned about rejection letters.   
What makes it worthwhile is that on occasion the letter is NOT a rejection.   
But if you never send out, you'll never know.   I have a theory that all 
writers should ask a family member to screen letters from publishers, and just 
pitch the rejections in the trash pile.   It would certainly make sending 
out easier.   And you'd know if you hadn't been accepted because there would 
be silence at the end of that trail.   But you'd also get the good stuff.

We had some very good poets, as well as two men who had written songs and 
sang them for us.   The poets are so afraid of rejection they've been sitting 
on their work for years--decades.   And the poems were great.   We need to 
restructure the publishing field in the U.S.!   (I can't speak for the U.K.)
Lori

In a message dated 10/30/09 3:17:13 PM, dreamavdb at googlemail.com writes:


> If I only wanted to get it published, that would probably be good
> advice, but I also like writing for the sake of it. Just to please
> myself. Then worry about getting it presentable after that's been
> sorted out.
> 
> Also yes, I do definately apreciate feedback of all kinds, but it
> doesn't mean I don't find the experience stressful. I mean what writer
> wouldn't greater success for their novel.
> 
> During the break I might think of a way of improving the first book.
> 
> I'm getting too stressed at moment to handle a flood of reject letters
> from publishers. (even JK rowling got rejects and Harry Potter is now
> one of the most popular books ever). So that's why I'll be taking a
> break from writing for others and just write for pleasure. Then after
> the sequal (or maybe sequals) are completed I'll go back to the start
> and try and get it published.
> 
>