Top Ten Reasons Why Wannabees Stay Wannabees

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Inspired by the thread in Novels "S doesn't get it."

Top Ten Reasons Why Wannabees Stay Wannabees

10. Why would I want to read novels when I write them?

9. I finished my novel last night, now where do I send it?

8. My storys so grate It don’t matter if i can spell and punchuate. Its the edators job to fix that stuff up.

7. I know 350,000 words is a little long for a first novel, but you don’t understand. In my genre long novels sell.

6. It’s all luck anyway, so I’m going to query every agent in Jeff Herman’s book.

5. Query, what’s a query?

4. What do you mean you want snail mail submissions? I only use e-mail.

3. I’ll print my manuscript on hot pink paper and deliver it with a stripper who jumps out of a cake, then they’ll know how creative I am.

2. You requested the first 25 pages, so I’m sending you chapters 8 and 10 because they are the best .

1. I e-mailed this agent 3 days ago and she hasn’t answered, so I’m going to call her and see what the hold-up is.
 

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Ouch. I'm guilty of #3, though slightly different.
 

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I have this fabulous idea for a novel that would also make an amazing movie. I don't want to tell you what it is because I don't want anyone to steal my ideas, but if you contact me we can write up a contract: You write the book and we'll split the millions in profits 50-50.
 

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Rllgthunder said:
Poor Carrie. Third person over the edge.......

Does that mean that C is over the edge in 3rd person, or she's the third person to go over the edge? She wasn't sure when she read your post. :roll:
 

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#11. Thanks for your feedback, but I it's great just the way it is, and in fact I'll spend several minutes disputing every comment you've made, even though I was the one who requested your feedback in the first place.
 

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#12 I will send out queries to everyone I can think of, even if they don't say they accept my genre. Then, when I get my first acceptance, I'll accept it right away and become an instant bestselling author just like Stephen King!
 

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Bart is guilty of #3.

I actually parachuted nude and delivered the MS. myself. Boy, that was an interesting day in jail.
 

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an agent just rejected the ms so i am going to spend the next month a, eating to drown my depression and b, to change everything in the ms i can resubmit to the same agent again
 

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i make up names of non existing publications to make my credentials sound impressive including first prizes in college writing contests
 

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Ever notice how some folks talk about, "The book I'm gonna write some day?"

I used to wonder when that day would come, and then just tossed their assertions onto the same pile as Kingdom Come.
 

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my mc wont appear and the story doesnt kick off until page 140 and nothing really happens until then but you get to know the characters very well by page 139 and anyone who says i should change that is a wannabe
 

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my book is timely but its not easy for a new author to be recognized for her talent so i am eager to work with a publisher who appreciates my talent even if i have to pay them $4000 so i can see my book in print in less than two months, not to mention the sales people have been really nice to me and guarantee that my book will be a best seller!
 

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Stupid agents just don't recognize my awesome genius. They just don't get me. The fault lies with them--and the publishers just like them.

Maryn, who knows both sour grapes and super ego on sight
 

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actually, most (if not all) of the issues listed here can be rememdied through maturity, education and diligence.

the only constant in why wannabees stay wannabees is that their writing just isn't good enough.
 

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William Haskins said:
the only constant in why wannabees stay wannabees is that their writing just isn't good enough.

but wouldnt you say that can also be remedied - to an extent of course no one can make a great writer out of a bad writer - through maturity education and diligence as well?
 

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Cat Scratch said:
#11. Thanks for your feedback, but I it's great just the way it is, and in fact I'll spend several minutes disputing every comment you've made, even though I was the one who requested your feedback in the first place.

I belonged to a critique group where one woman was guilty of this CONSTANTLY. She got on my nerves so much that I stopped going. :ROFL:
 

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aghast said:
but wouldnt you say that can also be remedied - to an extent of course no one can make a great writer out of a bad writer - through maturity education and diligence as well?

talent can be refined through practice. it can't be invented out of thin air.
 
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