Kind of Like Friday

Well, today is my last day at the old job, so it's kind of like Friday for me. I still have four billion things to wrap up and a ton of personal items to pack, but this is it. I officially start the new job on Monday, but I have a ton of things to do Thursday and Friday in order to prepare for it - not least of which is tweaking my proposal, because

MY AGENT LIKES IT!!!!!

Finally, fourth try is the charm. This proposal has kicked my hiney, but it's finally working. I need to tweak a couple of hundred items to make it perfect :) but it's going to work.

My relief is paramount!

So today's thought is a quote by Albert Einstein - "The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them."

Now, apply this to your writing. Have you been guilty of turning out the same work over and over again and wondering why you're still racking up rejections? Or have you studied your failures and figured out why they didn't work so that you wouldn't make the same mistakes again?

Unfortanately for me, I was very creative with my propsal and kept making different mistakes. :) Hopefully, I covered a bunch of them that I won't make again, but I'm sure there's a million more out there.

When you receive a rejection, study the why. If you have notes from an editor YAHOO! Do NOT ignore them. If the comments are vague, then ask a published author or a very talented pre-published author if they could take a look and give you an opinion.

Without knowing the why, you could make the same mistakes over and over again - banging your head into the massive stone wall of publishing.