The jet-propelled rejection (ii)

[hirez]

F&SF bounced the thing only slightly less quickly than the Interzone chaps, but there's a big pond in the way.

Is there a land speed record for this sort of thing? Would listening to early Husker Du help?

I don't wonder that this writing business isn't yet part of my reality, because I suspect I should care more. Or I'm just so tiresomely arrogant that... No. That would be really quite bad.

Comments

[meltie.livejournal.com]

any useful feedback, or just a sod off?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

"Didn't grab"

Which is, I understand, reasonably standard and not without basis in fact.

Perhaps I should begin a story with something like "I was becoming used to waking up in a rich woman's body"?

Or then again, perhaps not.

[prusik.livejournal.com]

My last F&SF reject was a "Didn't grab" too. The word is that JJA has different form letters and he picks which one to send out based on how far he got into your story.

Perhaps I should begin a story with something like "I was becoming used to waking up in a rich woman's body"?

I would keep reading just to see if you could pull it off. However, I don't have hundreds of stories to get through.

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

If you decide not to use that opening line, please let someone know.

I'll either use it or visit upon someone else.

[reddragdiva]

I see an anthology, all with that starting line.

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

It worked for "Carmen Miranda's ghost is haunting Space Station Three." Maybe we should give it a try...

[reddragdiva]

Write hooks for practice.