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Brin  11
12-01-2007 11:42 PM ET (US)
Hello, nice site :)
John Doe  10
11-07-2007 07:46 AM ET (US)
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BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  9
09-09-2005 09:32 AM ET (US)
The importance of closure

For those of you who don't know how to deal with those old manuscripts that never went anywhere: buy a gun.

Many a Hollywood screenwriter has bemoaned the brutal Darwinism of the movie business, has felt the dull pain of too many pages and too many years of orphaned work unproduced and unrecognized. Few, however, have found the path of catharsis and creativity discovered by Mr. Benedek.

(From Brenda)


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chicken  8
09-07-2005 11:26 AM ET (US)
Bah. The most effective way to stop a writer is to just sit on the manuscript. Sit and sit and sit and sit and sit.
BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  7
09-07-2005 09:19 AM ET (US)
"No. Some people have got to be stopped."

True dat. But whatever happened to the old fashioned way of stopping someone? And speaking of that, how come they never hoist pianos up the sides of buildings anymore? (From Bookslut)


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BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  6
03-02-2005 11:15 PM ET (US)
Rejected by Tom Ridge

A rejection letter from a reject's reject. That gotta hoit.

As Director of the Department of Homeland Security I made it my top priority to protect the American Homeland from another vicious terrorist attack, and I like to think we achieved some success in that regard.

But with the beginning of a second term it was time to move on, and so I have. But I still hope to continue my vital work for our country in my new post, which is that of Assistant Short Story Editor for the LaGrange Literary Review.

Which is why I'm writing you today. I'm afraid we cannot accept your short story for publication in the Review.



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BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  5
09-22-2004 09:29 PM ET (US)
No one understands your work?

Check out this rejection letter Ursula Le Guin received for her masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness. Philistines! (From Maud)



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BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  4
07-11-2004 10:03 PM ET (US)
Take Heart, Loser!

Every now and then we all need to read one of those rejected-a- million-times-and-now-famous stories. Here you go. Put the razor down for another day...



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BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  3
06-15-2004 11:30 PM ET (US)
Gallery of Pain

Maud links to a great gallery of rejection letters. It looks like a checklist for my filing cabinet.



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BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  2
02-02-2004 09:00 PM ET (US)
Tired of Wallpapering Your Room with Rejection Letters?

Now you can put them online. (LOL* Boing Boing)



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BookninjaPerson was signed in when posted  1
08-27-2003 09:18 PM ET (US)
This Is Just a Note to Say...

Of course, I've never received a rejection letter, so this is a complete abstraction to me.



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