#rejections

[colubrina]

2025 Rejections Goal

OK, I'm back for another round of trying to hit 100 rejections in a year. Can she do it, folks? In 2023 I hit 91, and in 2024 I hit 65, but I believe in myself! I can send enough things out to accumulate 100 rejections. THIS YEAR WILL BE MY YEAR! Current Total: 110/100

I hit my total, and I also sold 5 things this year, which is good. Great! And I very much would not have submitted to some of the markets if I weren't chasing this goal, but I think this might be too much of a downer of a goal to continue. There's good reasons in publishing to set the goal as a thing you can control. "Get an agent," "sell a book," "hit list" are all goals that are way too dependent on the whims of the market. But also, measuring the many ways I have failed to succeed is maybe not so great for my mental health. Next year, maybe I'll aim for hitting a certain fic word count every month and go back to writing things and having people tell me they like them instead of having people tell me they don't.

[unwelcome-ozian]

[quotelr]

A balanced inner calmness radiates from a peaceful centre. It neither craves others' approval nor rejects others' presence. It neither pulls towards nor pushes away. It has a reverent attitude towards life and all its inhabitants.

Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

[mrcformoso]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

New Wangxian fic!

An angsty one-shot that explores the question:

What if WWX confesses to LWJ but LWJ panicc and canon events still happen?

SUMMARY:

“I love you, Lan Zhan!” “Stupid.”

“Love you, Lan Zhan!” “Shameless.”

“Lan Zhan! I love you!” “Get lost.”

“Wei Ying, I love you.”

It should have been what Wei Ying wanted.

But…after all this time, after everything…

“You’re too late.”

Or: Wei Ying had been openly declaring his love for Lan Zhan ever since they met at The Cloud Recesses. Confused and emotionally constipated, Lan Zhan rejected him, until everything went wrong, until he lost Wei Ying in the end. 13 years later, Wei Ying cannot trust Lan Zhan with his heart.

Or or: wwx confesses, teenji is a constipated panic gay, and canon still happens.

[sajaksesak]

Setiap lagi-lagi aku mendapatkan diriku terluka sebab mereka atas tindak-tanduknya, atas ucap tak berdasar yang terlontar, atas pergi dan diam yang meninggalkan tanya tentang nilaiku:

Aku pikir, ini baik ketika aku lekas memaafkan mereka. Karena aku percaya bahwa tidak ada dasar niat dari mereka untuk melukai. Mereka barangkali memang tengah kewalahan dengan diri mereka sendiri.

Mereka memiliki masalahnya tersendiri. Ada yang belum mereka pahami, ada yang belum menemukan apa yang sedang dicari.

Ketika aku mengetahui itu, aku malah temukan diriku lebih bodoh namun tenang. Lebih sensitif namun unggul atas egoku. Lebih dingin namun tak bisa berhenti peduli.

Aku menemukan diriku semakin yakin bahwa aku memang tak baik-baik saja. Namun ternyata aku baik-baik saja dengan itu.

Aku tak apa untuk saat ini.

Arief Aumar Purwanto

[nanoland]

the thing about this latest rejection is that they actually gave me feedback for once! explaining what was wrong with the book. 

and uh. i don’t agree with it ._. like at all 

[galaxymemes]

Rejection Sentence Meme!

"Thanks, but no thanks."

"I'm sorry, I just don't think of you that way."

"A date? With you? Never."

"Oh, you actually thought I liked you? Oops."

"How could you reject me like that?"

"You're more like a brother/sister/sibling to me."

"No, we can't be more than friends."

"Love you? No way!"

"You declined my proposal in front of all those people. I'm humiliated!"

"I really don't care for you."

"I thought what we had was special!"

"So -- you're not going to marry me after all?"

"You friend-zoned me!"

"I'm breaking up with you."

"Why did you have to be so rude about it? If you didn't like me, you should have just said."

"Fuck you, you said you loved me!"

"I'm leaving you for your best friend."

"Sorry. I didn't mean to lead you on like that."

"We're not friends. We've never been friends."

"Oh, I didn't know you were seeing someone else."

"I can't believe you actually thought we were together."

"We're getting a divorce."

"How could you do this to me?"

"I thought you loved me but it seems you don't care!"