Comments on: The art of rejection http://buildingmywings.com/2009/11/11/the-art-of-rejection/ "You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:02:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David http://buildingmywings.com/2009/11/11/the-art-of-rejection/#comment-72 David Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:46:06 +0000 http://buildingmywings.com/?p=265#comment-72 I'm both admiring and green with envy at the winning entry. Pure poetry. I’m both admiring and green with envy at the winning entry. Pure poetry.

]]> By: marjorie http://buildingmywings.com/2009/11/11/the-art-of-rejection/#comment-71 marjorie Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:46:56 +0000 http://buildingmywings.com/?p=265#comment-71 i didn't read all the entries either. i meant the blog itself. i read back a couple of screens and it just seems so sour and meanspirited. or maybe i am just a DELICATE LITTLE FUCKING FLOWER. i didn’t read all the entries either. i meant the blog itself. i read back a couple of screens and it just seems so sour and meanspirited.

or maybe i am just a DELICATE LITTLE FUCKING FLOWER.

]]> By: Fawn http://buildingmywings.com/2009/11/11/the-art-of-rejection/#comment-70 Fawn Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:45:15 +0000 http://buildingmywings.com/?p=265#comment-70 I think maybe I am just more bitter than you! Ok, bitter isn't the right word, maybe "dark" is more accurate. But I can see where it's not for everyone. Let a thousand websites bloom, etc. etc. And I confess I didn't read all the contest entries, only the winners. I think maybe I am just more bitter than you! Ok, bitter isn’t the right word, maybe “dark” is more accurate. But I can see where it’s not for everyone. Let a thousand websites bloom, etc. etc.

And I confess I didn’t read all the contest entries, only the winners.

]]> By: marjorie http://buildingmywings.com/2009/11/11/the-art-of-rejection/#comment-69 marjorie Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:27:43 +0000 http://buildingmywings.com/?p=265#comment-69 ok, i checked it out... and dude, i think this site is toxic. yes, the rejection letters were hilarious (i loved the supershort one about how your writing shines so brightly, we are BLIND to its potential) but how can you not want to kill yourself after reading a few screens of it? maybe i'm blind (to its potential!) because i just finished Shiver and thought it was fabulous and thought the blogger's critique was WAY off base (and was lumping the book in completely wrongly with Twilight out of hatred and fury at Twilight)...but i think it's more than that. gee, the venting of someone who hates her job and gots to snark snark snark? i can get that on the well. i can DO that on the well. it's hard enough to be a writer these days - i don't need to immerse myself in the snotty suck of strangers. ok, i checked it out… and dude, i think this site is toxic. yes, the rejection letters were hilarious (i loved the supershort one about how your writing shines so brightly, we are BLIND to its potential) but how can you not want to kill yourself after reading a few screens of it? maybe i’m blind (to its potential!) because i just finished Shiver and thought it was fabulous and thought the blogger’s critique was WAY off base (and was lumping the book in completely wrongly with Twilight out of hatred and fury at Twilight)…but i think it’s more than that. gee, the venting of someone who hates her job and gots to snark snark snark? i can get that on the well. i can DO that on the well. it’s hard enough to be a writer these days – i don’t need to immerse myself in the snotty suck of strangers.

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