Temporary Insanity
A wannabe writer loses it.27 total reviews
Comment from purrfect tale
Well you have succeeded in scaring the beegeebers out of me! I wonder how many of your reviewers are saying to themselves, "I won't have that problem. Someone will want my book." Gulp! Really good, not one extra word in the lot. I liked the abrupt, sometimes incomplete sentences which fits exactly the way we talk. I hope others realize it was on purpose, cause this is good!
In fact(,) Death by Degrees had
reply by the author on 16-Apr-2012
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Well you have succeeded in scaring the beegeebers out of me! I wonder how many of your reviewers are saying to themselves, "I won't have that problem. Someone will want my book." Gulp! Really good, not one extra word in the lot. I liked the abrupt, sometimes incomplete sentences which fits exactly the way we talk. I hope others realize it was on purpose, cause this is good!
In fact(,) Death by Degrees had
Comment Written 16-Apr-2012
reply by the author on 16-Apr-2012
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Fortunately, it's fiction. Although I cried many tears over rejections when in my thirties. Not books, just short stories. I'm glad you saw no extra words since this is one of the requirements. But honestly, I've given up winning a contest.
Hey-maybe the judges will select fearing I, like the heroine, will flip out again. Thanks for catching the comma error and quadruple thanks for the sixer. Means a lot coming from you, one of the best on the site.
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Ah, sucks. Don't worry about winning a contest. I entered a 100 word flash last week that I dashed off and knew it wasn't right. It was a funny scene, but no conflict so not a real story. I won. That tells me the voters just went for laughs, not a well written story.
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That was true of most of the flash entries I read -not a conflict, just humor. But I did vote for yours.
Comment from Linda England Bonam
This was a good story. I enjoyed reading it and thought you did a realistic job of telling it. Good luck with the flash fiction contest. This should get some votes!
reply by the author on 16-Apr-2012
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This was a good story. I enjoyed reading it and thought you did a realistic job of telling it. Good luck with the flash fiction contest. This should get some votes!
Comment Written 16-Apr-2012
reply by the author on 16-Apr-2012
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This is one of the biggies for one hundred bucks. Hope the learned judges will vote too-- fearing the author will flip out. LOL Thanks for the stars, Linda.
Comment from Louise Michelle
Hee, hee - this was a fun romp. Particularly liked the line about the pie, so typical. Hey, if you'd like my feedback on flash fiction I'll be happy to give it until my membership runs out. Just don't tell anyone I'm doing this, lol. (Too bad I can't send this under an alias. Hugs, ?
reply by the author on 16-Apr-2012
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Hee, hee - this was a fun romp. Particularly liked the line about the pie, so typical. Hey, if you'd like my feedback on flash fiction I'll be happy to give it until my membership runs out. Just don't tell anyone I'm doing this, lol. (Too bad I can't send this under an alias. Hugs, ?
Comment Written 16-Apr-2012
reply by the author on 16-Apr-2012
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Hey, what a nice surprise. My lips are sealed. I'll keep your offer in mind. Hugs, Shari
Comment from justjo66
I loved this story. It had a sense of reality and yet it was fun to read. Sorry, never fun to be rejected but you wrote it in such a hilarous way.
Good dialogue. I couldn't stop my read. Felt certain you
would end up in the "looney bin" but still kept reading. :o)
Great job.
reply by the author on 16-Apr-2012
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I loved this story. It had a sense of reality and yet it was fun to read. Sorry, never fun to be rejected but you wrote it in such a hilarous way.
Good dialogue. I couldn't stop my read. Felt certain you
would end up in the "looney bin" but still kept reading. :o)
Great job.
Comment Written 16-Apr-2012
reply by the author on 16-Apr-2012
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Thanks, Just. My heroine learned a lesson about letting her ego run amuck.LOL.
Comment from ScarletClearwater
I really enjoyed this piece. I shared your frustrations throughougt. It was really engaging and I hope therapeutic. Nicely done.
reply by the author on 16-Apr-2012
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I really enjoyed this piece. I shared your frustrations throughougt. It was really engaging and I hope therapeutic. Nicely done.
Comment Written 16-Apr-2012
reply by the author on 16-Apr-2012
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Thanks, Scarlet. Well, I personally would give up after ten rejections and commit hari cari on the spot.
Comment from ameen786
Brilliant! Spitfire my friend, I felt like I am literally watching the writer go hysterical as you so wonderfully described; gravitating write and something that some writers could relate to; but your heroine-writer sure have lots of patience with 110 rejections; glad there are other ways to get publish these days, quite fascinating/entertaining read, thank you my friend.
reply by the author on 16-Apr-2012
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Brilliant! Spitfire my friend, I felt like I am literally watching the writer go hysterical as you so wonderfully described; gravitating write and something that some writers could relate to; but your heroine-writer sure have lots of patience with 110 rejections; glad there are other ways to get publish these days, quite fascinating/entertaining read, thank you my friend.
Comment Written 16-Apr-2012
reply by the author on 16-Apr-2012
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Maybe that was a bit of a stretch, but hyperbole is a big part of comedy. Thanks for the great review.
Comment from Chuck23
I couldn't help but give you a six, because this is one of the first shorts I've found on fanstory in some time that made me laugh and smile. I still am, in fact.
Glad to see a story of one who doesn't take rejection lightly.
Good luck!
reply by the author on 15-Apr-2012
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I couldn't help but give you a six, because this is one of the first shorts I've found on fanstory in some time that made me laugh and smile. I still am, in fact.
Glad to see a story of one who doesn't take rejection lightly.
Good luck!
Comment Written 15-Apr-2012
reply by the author on 15-Apr-2012
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I'm so pleased with your comment about making you laugh. And thanks so much for the green plus. My daughter remembers how I used to cry when I received a rejection letter. That was over thirty five years ago. I never realized it affected her!
Comment from TammyGail
That's clever as hell girlie and just wow so damn creative..I loved the closing were the MD says "Baker Act her."
Oh shit! I thought, recognizing the term. That's for the insane"
and these closing lines :)
"But what really hurt? . I'd lost my love
for writing.
At least temporarily."
Excellent work I enjoyed the read to the full, best of luck in the contest..
reply by the author on 15-Apr-2012
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That's clever as hell girlie and just wow so damn creative..I loved the closing were the MD says "Baker Act her."
Oh shit! I thought, recognizing the term. That's for the insane"
and these closing lines :)
"But what really hurt? . I'd lost my love
for writing.
At least temporarily."
Excellent work I enjoyed the read to the full, best of luck in the contest..
Comment Written 15-Apr-2012
reply by the author on 15-Apr-2012
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Wow! Thanks so much, Tammy for my third sixer on this. It was a fun write, believe it or not.
Comment from barkingdog
I really liked the pace and humor in this semi-serious piece. (We all want to get published ... that's the serious part. LOL)
The obsession drove her over the edge when the editor suggested she throw away her typewrite and 'make a mean apple pie.'
I could see her seething and running for the knife and then the pills to end it all.
Great piece. Non-stop read.
reply by the author on 15-Apr-2012
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I really liked the pace and humor in this semi-serious piece. (We all want to get published ... that's the serious part. LOL)
The obsession drove her over the edge when the editor suggested she throw away her typewrite and 'make a mean apple pie.'
I could see her seething and running for the knife and then the pills to end it all.
Great piece. Non-stop read.
Comment Written 15-Apr-2012
reply by the author on 15-Apr-2012
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You're a darling! Love to see that green star. Semi-serious is an apt description. This could be me if I didn't take celexa. LOL.
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Your a druggie?
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I have a hormonal imbalance that affects seritonin levels. It runs in the family. I only take 20mg a day.
Comment from Earl of Oxford
Hi, Shari - I gues 'Baker Act' is just an American term.
It's a coincidence you received 110 rejection letters, and you weighed 110lbs ;-)
You've proved your need to be locked away here with your obsession for getting published. I bet it's not that easy to speak to an editor in real life.
An amusing story most of us can relate to.
I gave up after just EIGHT rejection letters on a kids' book I sbmitted . Oh well...that's humanity's loss. LOL.
Good luck and best wishes, earl
reply by the author on 15-Apr-2012
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Hi, Shari - I gues 'Baker Act' is just an American term.
It's a coincidence you received 110 rejection letters, and you weighed 110lbs ;-)
You've proved your need to be locked away here with your obsession for getting published. I bet it's not that easy to speak to an editor in real life.
An amusing story most of us can relate to.
I gave up after just EIGHT rejection letters on a kids' book I sbmitted . Oh well...that's humanity's loss. LOL.
Good luck and best wishes, earl
Comment Written 15-Apr-2012
reply by the author on 15-Apr-2012
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I wrote the definition in the notes, although InterestingRon is English and knows the term. Never thought of the coincidence. Remember this is fiction. I weigh 117. Guess that should have been the magic number. Like you, after eight, I'd give up or self-publish. Don't want to deprive humanity. LOL
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I'd never self-publish as I think it's a rip-off and just a vanity thing that will never be promoted or be succesful in the literary world. Misery-guts?...MOI? x
