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Originally Posted by spellbanisher
How many great writers give up at the first rejection letter? Most writers get rejected dozens if not hundreds of times before they are first published. The ability to survive the horror of a rejection letter and the realization that God did not create you perfectly as you are separates those who are truly passionate about writing (or obsessive) from those who are only in it because of some deluded aspirations for fame or fortune or prestige. Even the most talented writers, quite frankly, suck when they first start writing. Writing is a skill that requires thousands of hours of honing and sharpening followed by bursts of binge drinking or coke sniffing (okay, only one of these two things is necessary to become a great writer). Rejection forces writers to look more closely at their writings, to try new things, to reevaluate their methods. Rejections force them to push their writing beyond what they thought were their limits. Rejection is a necessary part of the growth and maturation of a writer.
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yes. You seem passionate enough but lacking either the persistence or the coke sniffing, probably the former. Which is why you spend your literary verve here on long and pointless anti-establishment posts rather than on writing a convincing and amusing enough fictional view of such utopic world that would inspire future leaders towards your vision.
Well, there's always a chance they are reading here too...
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Of course their are some writers who are just so gifted that they never get rejected, like snooki.
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never get rejected because never applied and, thus, were never heard of.
unless you're talking about some twitter personality?
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In fact, many great writers would have never been able to make a living writing if publishers hadn't invested in them, given them advances and time to build their audience (usually from wood, although some use steel). Readers look at publishers like they are an evil empire; all the testimony I've heard from writers about publishers is usually positive.
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Their are bigger culprits to blame for all those good writers lost to society. How many good writers were lost to society because they were born as peasants or slaves? How many good writers were lost to society because they were born in a third world country? How many good writers were lost to society because they were killed in wars or by plagues and famine? How many good writers were lost to society because they were born as caterpillars. (at least they got to become butterflies). Writing has always been a profession for the privileged, although all you writers living in one bedroom apartments and subsisting off ramen noodles probably disagree.
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a torrent of great quotes. Did you sniff anything or it was your own imagination?
are you talking about mangá authors?
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Old Giggleton: Remember when there were publishers.
Old Mr Ploppy: We don't and never needed their ivory tower walls.
Old Giggleton: We were told there were riches beyond our imaginations behind those walls.
Old Mr Ploppy: so
Old Giggleton: If only we could have known that behind those walls was nothing but raw sewage .
Ghosts of Harryt and Kennyc: We told you so!
Old Mr Ploppy: What! Fascists! Quit complaining ploppy. If we keep sifting through the sewage we'll eventually find some diamonds. Its only a matter of time before we find those hidden riches.
Old Giggleton: Please, no more sewage. I'm very very sick. My skin has turned green.
Ghosts of Harryt and Kennyc: Ha! Ha! Ha!
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