tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post112055269712580484..comments2024-03-19T09:18:41.352+00:00Comments on Grumpy Old Bookman: A different diagnosisMichael Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338398159818400930noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-69611851803034726562010-03-15T20:15:39.571+00:002010-03-15T20:15:39.571+00:00Hello friend amazing information about A different...Hello friend amazing information about A different diagnosis thanks for collect and post this informationstomach flu symptomshttp://www.stomachflusymptoms.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-49664767197304591632009-11-19T21:04:42.722+00:002009-11-19T21:04:42.722+00:00Hi There! Really cool site . Ok so I'm always ...Hi There! Really cool site . Ok so I'm always searching for this kind of stuff.<br />I have this fascination thing. 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The person expects to be recognised as rather special.</I><BR/><BR/>I was really put off by a 'really popular' online writing workshop for this reason alone when I came across a few people like this, mind you many of them never had lengthy biographies of themselves in terms of their publications but they would often describe themselves in third person (??).<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/> <I> 2. The belief that the individual has unique problems.</I><BR/>The same person would post up their personal problems and expect other members to respond with sympathy frequently.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/> <I> 3. A need for excessive admiration.</I><BR/><BR/>Once again on this site, there was this particular person who was annoying beyond belief. He had his own room with some thirty or so members (yep, I was invited too) and he'd post up forum topics that focused on his sucessful submissions. It was like "Well I got accepted, you dudes haven't been."<BR/>Because he would only announce his achievement and that was it, expecting everyone to say 'awww'..'ahhh' but if others posted up about rejection, he offered little in return - like he'd never experienced rejection or if he did, it was the end of the world. <BR/>Others on there still would bitch about literary agents and 'how they know jack-shit'<BR/> <I> 4. A sense of entitlement which is not justified by their attainments.</I><BR/>I don't think anyone can belittle someone else or be arrogant if they've had two works accepted on a free online E zine, but yep it happens.<BR/> <I> 5. The belief that, if only their hitherto unhonoured achievements and ability were recognised, their success would be unlimited.</I><BR/><BR/>Everyone feels some level of frustration with rejection, it's normal but one moves beyond that if they write consistently and really get off their pedestal. But, there are many who (like the person I refer to above) feel they have been shortchanged, who even expect some kind of 'reason' from a publisher or agent. <BR/> <I> 6. Reacting to criticism with inappropriate rage.</I><BR/><BR/>I'll put myself in this category. I blew my stack at this person who reviewed in order to submit one of her own short stories. She happened on one of my more staid pieces and didn't review all short story elements and asked me dumb questions such as 'is there an audience for this?' and then she told me to 'lighten up' (insert US accent, she was from the US) when the theme was about death and it wasn't a 'humour, just for laughs piece'. So I felt she didn't really read it considering she summarised each event and then asked me the question. But I rarely react this way, I reacted because I had enough of the egos that were flying about on that site.<BR/> ~~~~~~~~<BR/><BR/>What I find is that there are so many people who rely on their 'one golden nugget' of a novel to be published. 'It has to be, because it's a good piece of work' they'll say, and they get so frustrated with agents, publishers and so on. They'll delegate blame, even if they are staring at one hundred rejections and they won't stop to ask themselves whether or not they have to reassess/reread their work (jeez, after all that time spent writing it? It would take so much time!)<BR/><BR/>There are many who don't realise that the best selling writers out there today aren't overnight successes. They too received rejection slips over the years and this doesn't mean these writers will walk in the same path as the best selling author. It's a bit like Chaos Theory rolled up with persistence.<BR/>But I've found that it's a hazard to immerse oneself with people (even online in workshops) that are too 'good' for everyone else. Every writer has a copy editor (in the end) who proofs anything, there is no perfection.Dee Jourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03292268023897537647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1120643322952027312005-07-06T10:48:00.000+01:002005-07-06T10:48:00.000+01:00Interesting article its seem that faced with comp...Interesting article its seem that faced with complaints from one of its customers that Random house cannot supply its product as required. Random house is considering stopping the supply all together. I am sure that will fill all its other customers with confidence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com