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You know I have to agree with Nautikos, simply, "It's a bloomin' mystery to me" as well. I just write and enjoy writing and if someone else enjoys what I write and share, wow, I'm mystified frankly. and above all, honored. I do know, from years of being in this field that rejection is so commonplace and you gain a thicker skin as time goes on. ~ Write on Vogue...
~Elyse
posted by
elysianfields
on July 2, 2008 at 9:13 PM
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I often
find that I don't really understand some peoples' standards. But the people that it matters to me the most are the people who may or may not publish me. For blogit, I am true to myself and just enjoy posting and reading others, so that I don't worry so much about my popularity here. I get alot out of Blogit and that is what matters. I have been published before but rejection is still just around the bend. There has been a shift in the amount of encouraging rejections so that many of them say they enjoyed it 'but it is not for us', so that I feel like I may be on the brink of something. What I feel overwhelmed with is trying to meet, say a literary journals, needs. I find it much easier to research to a certain extent then send out, because it is too dificult to determine each magazines exact tastes in something as broad as Literary fiction. Sometime I hope to hit the nail on the head! I don't expect overnight success but thinking realistically some time, if I keep trying, the timing being right, I can be what they are looking for.
posted by
KaBooM62
on July 2, 2008 at 12:21 AM
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I don't think there is any consistent factor involved or any great mystery
here my dear; if I take myself as an example it always depends on the imagery and how I relate to the piece in general and of course on my state of mind at the time of reading! It has been the case for me also that something I write in haste and don't feel very happy about may incite more interest than something I painstakingly put together over a period of time! It's all a matter of taste; take care
posted by
mariaki
on July 1, 2008 at 6:22 AM
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It's a bloomin' mystery to me, vogue!
But then, I'm not really a 'creative' writer anyway. My forte, if I have one, is as an analytical writer, an 'essayist', if you will, derived from my academic background. I will never be a writer of fiction, let alone a novelist - haven't got the imagination, lol.
But I am convinced, though I can't 'prove' it, that different areas of writing, different forms of discourse, have different 'standards', more or less 'integral' to those areas. In some they are fairly rigid, in others they're 'open-ended'...
I don't know if any of this makes sense to you...
posted by
Nautikos
on July 1, 2008 at 5:45 AM
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I can relate my dear...there are so many entries here actually I would always come across with which are great and very promising yet, there's either 1 or none comment at all. While there are those which aren't really good for me but been commented on many times. I guess it depends really dear on who is reading. My own work goes the same way....
posted by
__Purple_Mermaid11__
on July 1, 2008 at 2:20 AM
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That's a tough one to answer
I think that some times we see things in a story that others don't. Maybe it's the memory of something that happened and touched us but that outsiders can't feel. Maybe others see things in a piece that we don't. I'm still searching too. I some times send stuff about a place I really liked and get no answer from potentiel mags. and sometimes I get a yes for a small "insignificant" piece. WHo knows? Luck I suppose. But I enjoy your entries. Tschüs.
posted by
auslander
on July 1, 2008 at 2:12 AM
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