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That's true Joe Love and they go out of fashion just as fast.
in my case it would have helped if I finished the dashed thing! Slaps self
posted by
Azur
on October 27, 2005 at 11:38 PM
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MayB
Yes, but maybe the publishers had been receiving manuscripts for quite some time, but had rejected them due to feeling the market climate wasn't quite right for them yet. Then, when the time was right. . , BOOM! One followed the next, followed the next, followed the next.
posted by
Joe_Love
on October 27, 2005 at 11:21 PM
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MayB, you are too hard on yourself. I hope you finish that novel and get it out there. It's never too late. and I don't think the chick-lit market has been saturated. It's also never too late to start afresh. Chin-up, chica.
posted by
SilverMoon7
on October 17, 2005 at 2:34 AM
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My best sellar will come if I ever "plaster my bum to me chair" and write... don't ever, ever quit. We believe in you MayB...
posted by
cmoe
on October 16, 2005 at 12:35 PM
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I think there is still room for you
The fact is women can not get enough chick-flicks or chick-lit. Post it here I know I will read it. :)
posted by
realitytherapy
on October 15, 2005 at 9:51 PM
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Good idea - a novel about media has-beens ;-)
posted by
Azur
on October 15, 2005 at 7:56 PM
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MayB
Times have changed, MayB! Re-write it with a new twist.
posted by
johnmacnab
on October 15, 2005 at 7:51 PM
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All kinds....MayB,
but be blessed by the fact that you are providing inspiration to others. I will now not be ferreting away all my ideas, but writing them down and putting them to use as and how I have time. I'll never again think 'who would want to follow-through on marketing this idea.?'
My mother always said Nothing beats a trial, but a failure. What amazes me is that somewhere out there is a market for almost everything that is written.
posted by
word.smith
on October 15, 2005 at 1:58 PM
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I heard about someone who wrote about a school of wizards with owls and stuff. Then came Harry Potter.
He was cool and didn't try and capitalise on this. As he said, they were both drawing off the same fantasy archetypes.
Ah well. I am sorry for your loss... make that a lesson to all of us... carpe diem!
posted by
Gubby
on October 15, 2005 at 10:49 AM
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MayB
Too bad we missed out on yours! You obviously have the instinct for what people want to read though.
posted by
jojostar
on October 15, 2005 at 6:13 AM
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Now that story is a good enough reason not to hesitate, but to move forward at all times. Hope your next good idea becomes a bestseller!
posted by
Ca88andra
on October 15, 2005 at 5:25 AM
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MayB, you could have been a contender.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 15, 2005 at 4:20 AM
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Dear MayB,
It is 100% true and lot of times we miss out because we happen to be the second best. In advertising they used to tell me in my early days (almost seven years ago), creativity is not everybodys forte, but the opposite happens. We work on a campaign and has the approval of the client and lo, two days before some X uses the same style and layout...everything gone down the drain....people possibly will start relating like what you are saying...
I think same goes true for the writers...end of the day, a book or a movie is successful because the reader identifies with it, right, so may be, it has its advantages of being the first except ofcourse somebody does a real life story about you without asking you then its differerent.
Nice post...
posted by
prisondairy
on October 15, 2005 at 1:10 AM
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