Comments on: Reject! http://blameful.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/reject/ this is just a jam Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:39:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Z. http://blameful.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/reject/#comment-2900 Z. Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:12:27 +0000 http://blameful.wordpress.com/?p=1174#comment-2900 You know Vanessa, the road to success is paved with failure. I know you have it in you, keep going, you're a great writer. Here's a little food for thought (no pun intended, lol): http://books.google.com/books?id=u3yAMPLGBSkC&dq=failure+before+success&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=50orSoHTFYH6tgP6suCzCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11#PRA1-PR4,M1 You know Vanessa, the road to success is paved with failure. I know you have it in you, keep going, you’re a great writer. Here’s a little food for thought (no pun intended, lol):

http://books.google.com/books?id=u3yAMPLGBSkC&dq=failure+before+success&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=50orSoHTFYH6tgP6suCzCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11#PRA1-PR4,M1

]]> By: vive42 http://blameful.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/reject/#comment-2895 vive42 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:04:26 +0000 http://blameful.wordpress.com/?p=1174#comment-2895 thanks anne. Another rejection today (I sent a few things out around the same time). Guess I just have to ignore the results and focus on my part in things, the writing and sending things part. thanks anne. Another rejection today (I sent a few things out around the same time). Guess I just have to ignore the results and focus on my part in things, the writing and sending things part.

]]> By: anne http://blameful.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/reject/#comment-2894 anne Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:20:34 +0000 http://blameful.wordpress.com/?p=1174#comment-2894 Quote from an article about Phyllis Naylor, author of the children's book Shiloh (a Newberry Award Winner). Naylor stresses the value of perseverance for all writers. In the course of publishing more than one hundred books and two thousand stories and articles, Naylor has received more than ten thousand rejection letters. She received a lot of these rejections early on, before she started writing books. But she didn't let them stop her, they only spurred her to do better. "If I hadn't stuck with it," she says, "if I hadn't tried to make my next story better than the one before, I probably wouldn't have ever have got up the courage to write books." The author offers this final word of advice to aspiring writers: "Write the story only you can write-something you can really love or feel." That's what Naylor does, and it's clearly a winning formula. Quote from an article about Phyllis Naylor, author of the children’s book Shiloh (a Newberry Award Winner).

Naylor stresses the value of perseverance for all writers. In the course of publishing more than one hundred books and two thousand stories and articles, Naylor has received more than ten thousand rejection letters. She received a lot of these rejections early on, before she started writing books. But she didn’t let them stop her, they only spurred her to do better. “If I hadn’t stuck with it,” she says, “if I hadn’t tried to make my next story better than the one before, I probably wouldn’t have ever have got up the courage to write books.” The author offers this final word of advice to aspiring writers: “Write the story only you can write-something you can really love or feel.” That’s what Naylor does, and it’s clearly a winning formula.

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