“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
Robert Benchley

author: Nicole J. LeBoeuf

actually writing blog

Another One Bites The Dust
Tue 2005-12-27 14:07:11 (in context)
The Drowning Boy
  • 56,786 words (if poetry, lines) long
  • 108.00 hrs. revised
The Golden Bridle
  • 50,304 words (if poetry, lines) long
  • 0.00 hrs. revised

Woke up quite late today, toddled down to the mailbox, and found my official form rejection letter from Wizards Of The Coast regarding The Drowning Boy. Reactions?

  1. Darn! I could have sworn my three-chapter excerpt was irresistable!
  2. Figures. My synopsis and chapter outline were teh suxx0r.
  3. Whew! Now I don't have to worry about racing the phone call with my rewrite!
  4. Whoo-hoo! Another number located! Mine is 166! ...I have no idea what that means.
Apparently each rejection letter comes with a number on the envelope. No one is quite sure the significance, but it's been kind of fun "collecting them all" on the Absolutewrite.com forums.

Like I said in the AW thread, I'm going to keep working on this one through December, hoping to have the rewrite close to finished. Then in January I'm going to primarily do whatever the NaNoPubYe Plan says to do with The Golden Bridle, making sure to schedule time for other projects as well. Like short stories. And work-for-hire projects. Etc.

So. Time to hit chapter 13. More later tonight. Probably.

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