Jason Parker wrote:Just got my first personal, from F&SF.
Wow Jason!!! Congrats!
Jason Parker wrote:Just got my first personal, from F&SF.
LaurieG wrote:Jason Parker wrote:Just got my first personal, from F&SF.
Wow Jason!!! Congrats!
disgruntledpeony wrote:C.C. Finlay seems to be good for personals, I've noticed.
george nik. wrote:It's been a long time since I posted to this thread, but I feel that I must.
Editor's telling me that he enjoyed my story, it held his attention right up to the end, and he goes on to say that it was his favorite for the week.
He doesn't buy it, though.
(sigh)
Give me form acceptances, any time.
Ishmael wrote:That sounds like a hair's breadth, George. I know how you feel about so close and yet so far. However it's really better for one's self confidence than a form rejection, isn't it?
george nik. wrote:It's been a long time since I posted to this thread, but I feel that I must.
Editor's telling me that he enjoyed my story, it held his attention right up to the end, and he goes on to say that it was his favorite for the week.
He doesn't buy it, though.
(sigh)
Give me form acceptances, any time.
disgruntledpeony wrote:george nik. wrote:It's been a long time since I posted to this thread, but I feel that I must.
Editor's telling me that he enjoyed my story, it held his attention right up to the end, and he goes on to say that it was his favorite for the week.
He doesn't buy it, though.
(sigh)
Give me form acceptances, any time.
That's... That's just rough.
Ishmael wrote:That sounds like a hair's breadth, George. I know how you feel about so close and yet so far. However it's really better for one's self confidence than a form rejection, isn't it?
amoskalik wrote:Ishmael wrote:That sounds like a hair's breadth, George. I know how you feel about so close and yet so far. However it's really better for one's self confidence than a form rejection, isn't it?
It is. On the down side, this type of rejection usually comes months later than a form rejection which gives you more time to get your hopes up.
amoskalik wrote:
Still it's better than waiting months to find out they never got my submission in the first place because I failed to successfully fill out all the fields on the Submittable form (which happens more times than I'd like to admit).
bobsandiego wrote:george nik. wrote:It's been a long time since I posted to this thread, but I feel that I must.
Editor's telling me that he enjoyed my story, it held his attention right up to the end, and he goes on to say that it was his favorite for the week.
He doesn't buy it, though.
(sigh)
Give me form acceptances, any time.
That's the sort of thing that drives a person to drink.
(just don't drive back -- that's not safe.)
Randy Hulshizer wrote:Even though this is a "publication," I'm putting it here because it's not really a success. This little ditty made the top cut for both DSF and FFO, but was ultimately rejected. So, on it went to a sure thing, TFFP, grossing me a whopping $3.00.![]()
Anyway, in case you're interested:
http://www.theflashfictionpress.org/2016/08/29/two-words/
Randy Hulshizer wrote:I think I've finally graduated from the near 100% form rejection phase to the about 50% personal rejection phase. In the past three months or so, I've received seven personal rejections on various stories including a couple HMs from WotF. Many of the rejections have read something like this (sometimes with more specific suggestions):
"We really enjoyed reading this interesting piece. You should easily be able to get this published, but it's just not a fit for our publication."
I guess if I really want to sell stories I'll need to start "honing" them for particular markets instead of just writing what I want to write. Although something feels a little wrong with that.
george nik. wrote:It's been a long time since I posted to this thread, but I feel that I must.
Editor's telling me that he enjoyed my story, it held his attention right up to the end, and he goes on to say that it was his favorite for the week.
He doesn't buy it, though.
(sigh)
Give me form acceptances, any time.
disgruntledpeony wrote:Got my first personal from IGMS today! The editor said he loved the idea but the protagonist seemed a bit bland, which means I'm going to look the story over and see if it needs more internal conflict. (He also said he didn't think one of the other characters seemed vicious enough, but I think that's open to interpretation because of the nature of said character and the wide variety of characterizations in the mythos he was inspired by. Also, I was trying to keep the story PG-13.)
LDWriter2 wrote:disgruntledpeony wrote:Got my first personal from IGMS today! The editor said he loved the idea but the protagonist seemed a bit bland, which means I'm going to look the story over and see if it needs more internal conflict. (He also said he didn't think one of the other characters seemed vicious enough, but I think that's open to interpretation because of the nature of said character and the wide variety of characterizations in the mythos he was inspired by. Also, I was trying to keep the story PG-13.)
Not too bad at least You seem to be getting close
Ishmael wrote:Funnily enough I recently got a PR for a story being too fast-paced. I don't think this has ever happened to me before, though the reverse frequently has. Maybe I over-corrected.
In this case the entire action of the story takes under three hours so I'm going to need some effort if it's to be slowed down. Probably not worth it for the sake of one PR.
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