Posts Tagged ‘You Suck’
Posted by jamesviscosi on June 26, 2011
Yes, I’m still here! I’ve been reworking my fantasy novel Shards, AKA “The Big Book”, since mid-December. At this point I should have Part One available within a few months, to be followed (in another ten or twelve months, based on how long it has taken me to rework Part One and on the fact that Part Two is longer).
Why is it taking me so long to finish editing Shards Part One, you ask? Well, I finished Shards quite a while ago (“quite a while” being at least a decade) and when I finally went back to edit it … well, when you go back and read something that you wrote that long ago, what immediately strikes you is that it’s terrible. That’s what happens to me, anyway.
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Posted in Books, Excerpts, fantasy, Publishing, Writing, You Suck | Tagged: Books, Excerpts, fantasy, rewrites, shards, that's terrible, You Suck | 4 Comments »
Posted by jamesviscosi on December 19, 2010
I’ve been hoping to pull this rejection out for a while, as it’s one of my favorites, but I haven’t. So I took matters into my own hands and went looking for it:
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Posted in fantasy, horror, Short Stories, Writing, You Suck | Tagged: border agents, canada, customs, ghosts, guns, northern frights, rejection letters, rifles, smugglers, You Suck | 3 Comments »
Posted by jamesviscosi on November 21, 2010
It’s been a while since I reached into my stack of rejection letters, so today I dove in and pulled this one out, from Maelstrom, for a short story called “Pinch Bobby ‘Til He Bleeds”.
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Posted in Short Stories, Writing, You Suck | Tagged: hemophilia, horror, kids are mean, maelstrom, pinch bobby til he bleeds, psychopaths, rejection letters, Short Stories, summer camp, writing, You Suck | 5 Comments »
Posted by jamesviscosi on October 10, 2010
Today I reached into my massive pile of rejections and pulled out a relatively boring one from Clocktower Fiction’s webzine. This one was for “Love and the Tides of Darkness”, a short story that I originally wrote specifically for an anthology called On The Eighth Day. I really liked this story and tried to sell it to a bunch of different markets, but once the year 2000 rolled around, it was pretty much obsolete.
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Posted in Short Stories, Writing, You Suck | Tagged: angels, demons, fantasy, heaven, hell, love and the tides of darkness, millennium, on the eighth day, rejection letters, Short Stories, y2k, year 2000, You Suck | 3 Comments »
Posted by jamesviscosi on June 20, 2010
I haven’t done a Random Rejection in a while, so I reached into my giant accordion file and pulled out a letter. This one is from the Seymour Agency in upstate New York (not far, in fact, from where I went to college). Their opinion is that the manuscript I sent, A Flock of Crows is Called a Murder, needs work; fortunately, they’re here to help.
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Posted in Books, horror, Writing, You Suck | Tagged: a flock of crows is called a murder, critiques, editing services, fee-charging agencies, horror, night watchman, no thanks, rejection letters, the seymour agency, You Suck | 4 Comments »
Posted by jamesviscosi on April 25, 2010
So this week I reached into my vast collection of rejection letters and pulled out this one, from Schooner Bay Literary Agency:
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Posted in horror, Writing, You Suck | Tagged: children, evil, horror, long before dawn, rejection letters, schooner bay literary agency, tent stakes, vampires, vampires are monsters, You Suck | 5 Comments »
Posted by Dennis the Vizsla on February 21, 2010
So it seemed as if things were progressing nicely with Eclipse Comics … I was writing “Night Watchman” stories, my artist was drawing panels, and my editor was getting married and moving away. Good times for all concerned! Sadly, good times never seem to last …
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Posted in Writing, You Suck | Tagged: artists, claypool comics, comic books, eclipse comics, honeymoons, new zealand, night watchman, rejection letters, the end, writing, You Suck | 4 Comments »
Posted by jamesviscosi on February 14, 2010
When we last left off with the Eclipse Saga Part II, I was getting good feedback from the editor at Eclipse Comics about “Night Watchman”. So, while I continued to work on that, I started sending him proposals for all the other series ideas I had. I don’t have the scripts for all of them, but they included several that eventually became novels, as well as others that remain on the shelf in my mind gathering dust.
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Posted in Excerpts, Writing, You Suck | Tagged: afterlife, comic books, eclipse comics, editors, formatting issues, future cops, rejection letters, scripts, timecop, writing, You Suck | 2 Comments »
Posted by jamesviscosi on December 27, 2009
This week, I reached into the very back of my alphabetically-organized rejection list folder and pulled out this slip, from Francis Ford Coppola’s “Zoetrope” magazine:
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Posted in Publishing, Short Stories, Writing, You Suck | Tagged: guns, homeless, monsters, rejection letters, Short Stories, switchblades, You Suck, zoetrope | 4 Comments »
Posted by jamesviscosi on October 25, 2009
This week, I reached into my vast collection of rejection letters and pulled out this double-sider from Marietta Publishing:
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Posted in Short Stories, Writing, You Suck | Tagged: a choir of ill children, dark dixie, marietta publishing, rejection letters, Short Stories, the dog syndrome and other sick puppies, tom piccirilli, writing, You Suck | 3 Comments »
