The REJECTION RASPBERRY thread

[Jonny]

Here you go @Barbara

 

[Barbara]

I didn't get a rejection, but I take it in advance if that's ok.

 

[Jonny]

But I thought you'd rejected your own piece. Now that really is super tough.

 

[Jonny]

Think I'm losing it today... just checked and that was top of previous page but I somehow landed on it as being the most recent.

 

[Jonny]

Right now just a second, there's obviously something very weird going on today.

Because I've just this minute checked my emails and found I've got a rejection for a short story I'd forgotten I'd even sent out quite some time ago. That's just a bit too Spooky

Anyway, and that said - can I have a raspberry please?

"Thanks for submitting to Short Fiction. We are sorry to say that we are unable to publish your piece. As we are planning to publish only a few stories each year, we are having to decline some excellent work."

I have highlighted one sentence in particular which was obviously referring directly to my sub

 

[Barbara]

Right now just a second, there's obviously something very weird going on today.

Because I've just this minute checked my emails and found I've got a rejection for a short story I'd forgotten I'd even sent out quite some time ago. That's just a bit too Spooky

Anyway, and that said - can I have a raspberry please?

"Thanks for submitting to Short Fiction. We are sorry to say that we are unable to publish your piece. As we are planning to publish only a few stories each year, we are having to decline some excellent work."

I have highlighted one sentence in particular which was obviously referring directly to my sub

Here you go, Jonny, have a fart

 

[Rich.]

@Jonny, have another...

 

[Barbara]

@Jonny, have another...

That's one grand fart. But somehow I doubt there are pots of gold at those ends of that rainbow.

 

[Catherine Le Bars]

Goodness, how have I missed this... pungently therapeutic thread until just now

 

[KateESal]

Goodness, how have I missed this... pungently therapeutic thread until just now

Jump on board the trumpet train whenever you need to, Catherine!

 

[KateESal]

Confartulations to @Jake E

 

[Jake E]

Confartulations to @Jake E

This is a great thread. I will now spend my time looking for appropriate raspberry gifs instead of writing, lol.

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

Knock knock. Can I come in please?

Just received rejection number one. I take heart in the reply that the agent was intrigued by the concept and enjoyed reading it, but it was still a no - didn't love it enough.

 

[Jonny]

Welcome to the thread Hannah. Some positives to be taken there though.

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[Hannah Faoileán]

Rejection number 2: read it with interest; didn't feel swept up enough to take it forward.

 

[Barbara]

There's no raspberry emoji so have a strawberry:

And one of these:
FFFFFFFFFFFFRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT

 

[Jonny]

Bah! Nevermind Hannah. Plenty more to query. Onwards and upwards.

But in the meantime...

 

[Chris Yugay]

The number of rejections of my latest manuscript is well into double digits. In fact, my current goal is to get it to three digits. If I succeed before the end of 2020 it will be champagne all around!

 

[KateESal]

Double raspberry for double digits, @Chris Yugay

Confartulations!!

 

[Jonny]

That's the spirit @Chris Yugay

Double digits? Pah!

 

[Barbara]

@Chris Yugay

A FFFFFFFFFFFFRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT from me. Can you smell it? I had sprouts and broccoli just to make it extra (double digit) spicy.

I suggest we have an emoji reward of sorts for those who reach double and three digits. Maybe like you said: champagne

 

[Jonny]

Fellow Liptopians! A raspberry, or indeed any other noise created by a bodily function if you will please.

Sent out a batch of queries as of start of this month and got my first reply in just 10 days. Very impressed as it was a personal reply and not a stat "take it elsewhere" job.

Quite a decent let down as it goes. They'd obviously actually read some of my sub and were even quite complimentary about several aspects - but, as you guessed - they were so impressed that they decided to let someone else scoop it up and make us both millions.

I'd forgotten what fun this process is.

 

[Barbara]

or indeed any other noise created by a bodily function

Bluueeerrrrrb (that's a burp, not a blurb). Will that do?

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

Fellow Liptopians! A raspberry, or indeed any other noise created by a bodily function if you will please.

Sent out a batch of queries as of start of this month and got my first reply in just 10 days. Very impressed as it was a personal reply and not a stat "take it elsewhere" job.

Quite a decent let down as it goes. They'd obviously actually read some of my sub and were even quite complimentary about several aspects - but, as you guessed - they were so impressed that they decided to let someone else scoop it up and make us both millions.

I'd forgotten what fun this process is.

https://tenor.com/bgWXD.gif

 

[KateESal]

Ah, heck!

One confartulations to you, @Jonny

 

[Jake E]

I enjoyed searching 'Raspberry gifs' way more than I should have.
Here was my favourite... the competition was quite fierce.

 

[Jake E]

Another rejection has just landed in my inbox.
Can I have a raspberry please?

 

[Barbara]

Stand by

 

[Barbara]

It's in gin and tonic, will that do @Jake E ?

 

[Jake E]

It's in gin and tonic, will that do @Jake E ?


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Suddenly wish I had one of those.