I’ve been doing everything that this article says to do and nothing to show for it except hundreds of rejections. I just got another and she said the book needed to be cut down. I can’t cut down this book anymore. I already split it in two books and my brain isn’t made for “succinct” writing. I’m a failure. I e never succeeded at anything and this is no different. I’m giving up, but thanks for the feedback.

A professor in college said I’d never be a writer… so, what happened? Sounds like you’re doing a lot of stopping yourself. That’s fine if that’s what you want to do. Stop then. But I don’t think that’s true. So go, do it. You can.

I had thought about that for the past year, but I’m not business minded. I’m also dyslexic and am overwhelmed at the thought of promotion and marketing. Besides after over 200 rejections why would I think anyone would read the book? An agent said no one would read it, and she must be right.

Why not self-publish it? To be honest, I don’t seek agents for my books. I’ve had a lot of success self-publishing so far, so don’t see the need and I do have contact to some of the top agents. All I am saying is you don’t need someone to pick you to consider yourself a success! Seriously.

Hi Katharine, I get what you’re say, but I try to stray away from telling someone what they are doing is right or wrong. For example, it would be easy to tell the blogger I used as an example she must to stop, stamp my feet and demand it, because she’s breaking the rules and not doing it on purpose. But wait… her readers don’t mind, her readership continues to grow and ultimately, her message is being shared widely. So, the question is, if she can do it and you know the rules, so you obviously won’t produce what any child could (which she must be producing), you should be doing it even better… right? Sounds good on paper, but in reality it doesn’t always play out that way. In pool we have a saying when we miss our mark by a wide margin, “It was so off the mark that it got back on the mark.” Life’s funny like that. The message is always more important. If you’ve got a message and willing to share it, being a writer able to teach writing 101 isn’t required. However, that’s not to say you don’t have a point or putting you on the spot, it’s just that there’s always more involved and it’s not always what we’ve been taught, even though that can be a bit upsetting.