Finally-First Full Rejection

[lb92]

I got my first full rejection. Funny enough, this one was the last one I sent.
1 down 4 to go.

[Pandean]

Aw, that sucks. Did you at least get some feedback?

[lb92]

Yeah, a little. She thought the story needed more work and that she didn't feel engaged by the characters.
Honestly, I'm exhausted. Unless I get an offer or a R&R in the next few months, it might be time to move on to a different manuscript. 

[Sarah Ahiers (Falen)]

It's hard to set something aside, but honestly, after awhile, you'll just feel so much better to be working on something new

[SamIAm]

Aw, I'm sorry. Rejections on fulls flat out suck.

But I agree with Sarah. There is something super freeing about letting go and starting something new. Heck, that's how I ended up writing the book that got me my agent.

[bswb97]

One of my writer pals is a YA SF author currently agented and on a multi-book deal. While I await results on multiple submissions, she tried to ease my neuroses by telling me these stats:

-She sent 66 queries out
-She had multiple R&Rs over the course of 7 months
-When she finally got an agent, she had 3 fulls out (not including previous full rejections)
-One agent sped-read and made an offer upon notice of representation. The other agent never responded and presumably still has the full in her queue two years later.

I know we all read QT and see some people go from query to offer in some insane turnaround time, like weeks instead of months and months. But I think that's the exception, not the norm. So keep chipping away at it. One of my five fulls was just rejected on Friday -- a nice rejection, but a rejection nonetheless. I'm revenge querying this morning...