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[devi]

Ho hum, two rejections in the past week. But never mind. Stephen King said in that book about writing that you haven't really earned your stripes or learned your craft if you haven't got... er, a certain thickness, some inches anyway... of rejection letters on a spike on your desk. But hold on! All my recent ones have come by email! They have no physical thickness! I will never fill up the spike on my desk and never succeed! King Has Said It So It Must Be True.

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[mooism.livejournal.com]

Perhaps what he means is that the rejection letters must collectively be the size of a book. Thus you merely need your rejection e-mails to collectively be the length of a manuscript (originally mistyped as “menuscript”, which sounds horribly geeky).

Alternatively, print out the e-mails and stick them on a spike. But this strikes me as a waste of paper.

What’s your target for the number of rejections you receive this year?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

As many as it takes, damnit.

Ahem.