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Welcome to my pity party, please help yourself to the angst. There's plenty for everyone.
So I've had two partials requested so far this month, and they've now both been rejected. I don't even know what that brings the tally of my rejections to. Four fulls and... six partials? Seven? There are a couple still out there, but I'm losing hope. If so many people have seen my work and said no, why would anyone say yes?
The most detailed rejection I got from any of these was someone who didn't like the fantasy elements of my YA fantasy (too many different races, and she thought the magic was too magic-y). Someone else said that I have great sensory detail but they didn't connect with the main character. Everyone else? Variants on 'No, not for me, liked it but not enough'.
I think I could handle it if I was getting clear reasons WHY, things I could go back and fix to make the novel stronger. But this... this is making me feel like my writing is so fundamentally flawed or wrong or bad or unmarketable or SOMETHING that it can't be fixed. That it's broken on the conceptual level.
I'm going to see this thing through because I'd regret it for the rest of my life if I gave up, but it feels awfully futile.
So I've had two partials requested so far this month, and they've now both been rejected. I don't even know what that brings the tally of my rejections to. Four fulls and... six partials? Seven? There are a couple still out there, but I'm losing hope. If so many people have seen my work and said no, why would anyone say yes?
The most detailed rejection I got from any of these was someone who didn't like the fantasy elements of my YA fantasy (too many different races, and she thought the magic was too magic-y). Someone else said that I have great sensory detail but they didn't connect with the main character. Everyone else? Variants on 'No, not for me, liked it but not enough'.
I think I could handle it if I was getting clear reasons WHY, things I could go back and fix to make the novel stronger. But this... this is making me feel like my writing is so fundamentally flawed or wrong or bad or unmarketable or SOMETHING that it can't be fixed. That it's broken on the conceptual level.
I'm going to see this thing through because I'd regret it for the rest of my life if I gave up, but it feels awfully futile.