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Cassie Soliday's avatar

Love this, Chitra! I’m gonna try this archiving/ folder structure too. What a great idea!

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Chitra Soundar's avatar

Brilliant!

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Simon Philip's avatar

Really enjoyed reading this, Chitra! I certainly have a few PATHETIC manuscripts on my hard drive that I’ll never go back to… but I believe nothing is a waste of time - it’s all part of the process of improvement!

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Chitra Soundar's avatar

Absolutely! Every attempt at a story is a stepping stone in craft.

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Louie Stowell's avatar

I love this! I'm now thinking of all the sub sections of rejection reasons....for b especially.

"b) Publishers don’t think there is a market for the topic you’re writing and cannot afford to invest in it."

A current variant on this one is that "the entire market is in the toilet and while there USED to be a market for the topic you're writing, and there may well be again, the momment isn't right."

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Chitra Soundar's avatar

Let’s start a bingo card for each category!

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Louie Stowell's avatar

YESSSSS

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Chitra Soundar's avatar

That’s true! But writers like us PoC or in the under represented sectors, that feedback comes most often. We like it but who is going to want to read this? Meaning not our existing reader base!

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Louie Stowell's avatar

oh yes that's a whole sub category - "There's no market for this" when directed at POC = "we don't know how to market this because we have zero cultural competency and also believe PoC are somehow aliens"

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