A Few Brief Tips To Deal With Writing Rejection

Written by Laura Hickey


What to do when you get rejected

You've just finished your book, sent out query letters and was rejected. What's left to do? You could give up, but I wouldn't suggest this. Here's some brief tips on how to deal with rejection.

1.Take a breather- You've probably been wondering and rattling your brain as to why you got rejected. Take a break, not a long one...some time for a breather. If you continue to constantly analyze why you were rejected, you'll drive yourself crazy. Plus...if you decide after rejections to continue sending out new query letters, they may not be your best work. Why you ask? Because you may not produce your best work under allrepparttar stress you've put yourself under overrepparttar 128691 rejections. You wouldn't want more rejections because you didn't haverepparttar 128692 energy to send out your best sales pitch.

2.Self-esteem- Failure is not an option

Not Your Grandma’s Grammar

Written by Jane Straus


Not Your Grandma’s Grammar

As if it isn’t enough that computers have influenced just about every area of our lives, you’d think that something as sacred asrepparttar English language would remain immune to technology’s pressures. Not so. You may not need to learn new rules of grammar as often as you need to update your computer’s RAM, but tweaking your grammar skills will make you look more professional, and you can impress your friends and colleagues with some cutting-edge reasoning.

SPACED OUT One or two spaces between sentences after a period?

Unlike individual letters in typewriters, which all take uprepparttar 128689 space of one character, computerized lettering allows for spacing differences depending onrepparttar 128690 size ofrepparttar 128691 letter or punctuation mark. Hence, an m or an H is wider than an I. A period takes up less space than any letter so one space after a period onrepparttar 128692 computer creates a large enough gap torepparttar 128693 eye to indicaterepparttar 128694 end of a sentence.

Computer programmers changed this rule, not grammarians or English teachers. The battle is still being waged, but I thinkrepparttar 128695 programmers will win.

QUESTIONABLE MARKS Quotation marks and punctuation.

In Grandma's day, a period used with quotation marks followed logic. Examples: Myrtle saidrepparttar 128696 word "darn". The period went outsiderepparttar 128697 quote because onlyrepparttar 128698 last word was in quotation marks, notrepparttar 128699 entire sentence.

Myrtle said, "I would never say that." The period went insiderepparttar 128700 quotation mark becauserepparttar 128701 entire sentence is a quote.

Today (actually forrepparttar 128702 last 30 years or so),repparttar 128703 period always goes insiderepparttar 128704 quotation mark. Example: Myrtle saidrepparttar 128705 word "darn."

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