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Topic: sigh, rejected
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| Mag Girl | Posted – 8/9/2007 1:53:52 PM | show profile Two days, and two rejections from NYT and WaPo for an op-ed written as part of my full-time job. Is it at least a good sign I got a personal call from NYT rather than an e-mail? Someone make me feel better here. :) |
| nellie bly | Posted – 8/9/2007 2:26:30 PM | show profile what do you mean by "an op ed written as part of my full time job"? Perhaps that's why they rejected it? |
| Mag Girl | Posted – 8/9/2007 2:29:42 PM | show profile I think I may have confused you- It was ghost-written as part of my full-time job (Nonprofit PR) with our president's name on it. It's on a timely newsworthy topic. I only meant to say it's not a personal op-ed from my viewpoint. |
| writesonwater | Posted – 8/9/2007 2:32:00 PM | show profile A call should make you feel better, definitely. Do you think they could tell it was an op-ed YOU wrote for someone else? I mean, that it was ghost-written? Maybe they thot it was so smart, someone else had to have written it! |
| Mag Girl | Posted – 8/9/2007 2:42:21 PM | show profile ha, writesonwater, thanks ;) Waiting on the LAT now. I hate doing these successive submissions... |
| sue ellen mischke | Posted – 8/9/2007 2:56:01 PM | show profile Hey! It's not you! It's your president! Don't feel bad...you're not the one being rejected. It's probably politics more than talent. |
| Mag Girl | Posted – 8/9/2007 3:13:42 PM | show profile You're right Angela...they're technically rejecting my pres, but I am still feeling the effects of the drop-kick to my writing. I hope it was the topic selection rather than the writing. Because of *course* my writing is excellent. Right? Right... I suppose that really, I feel down more because this is a really important topic to me, and I want it to get more media attention. I think I get too personally invested in my job successes sometimes, but I am guessing that's pretty common for the nonprofit world. |
| recovering_jersey_girl | Posted – 8/9/2007 3:17:17 PM | show profile Aww, sorry Mag Girl. I've been there, too. Honestly, when I get back-to-back rejections I scrape my ego off the floor long enough to follow up on any other irons I have in the fire. My theory is as follows: Hey, if you get three or even four rejections in the same day, that is a 100% legitimate reason to go out and have a pity-party, complete with takeout ethnic food and copious amounts of Shiraz. Carving out time to sulk and/or wallow (whatever your pity-party style is ;-) gets it out of your system. PS. I agree w/ the others on here who have said that a call is a good sign. |
