Yeah, understood, 60 years of disappointments finally sent me to the bottle........it aint good
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Quote: nubbit @ April 23 2008, 7:38 PM BSTThis is just one more door slamming on my tiny tootsies in a long line of doors which I've had my foot some way in. I should be used to it by now. But it still hurts and it's ruining my toe nails (as well as crushing my diminishing spirit). Just how much door slamming do you take before you remove your feet forever?
You never remove your feet- unless under general anaesthetic. I won't go into my own pathetic tale- we've all got plenty of them eh? But I have been dropped from a great height on several occasions- boy it hurt & strangely enough is more difficult to recover from than I imagined. Despite this, and I don't consider myself emotionally resilient, I'm ploughing on. I have to. I look back with fond nostalgia to the times when I wrote just to amuse myself, I need to get me some of that.
Quote: nubbit @ April 23 2008, 7:55 PM BSTThen I guess I'm doomed. I usually deal with it by having a massive sulk and beating myself up for a couple of weeks coupled with excessive alcohol intake. And then as I get over it I vow to laugh in the face of whoever rejected me 'when I make it big'. Then they'll be sorry. Mwah ha ha ha ha.
I think this is perfectly healthy and normal. My views are not necessarily those of anybody else's in the world.
If only these editors/producers knew what damage they did
Quote: bushbaby @ April 23 2008, 8:45 PM BSTIf only these editors/producers knew what damage they did
They choose to reject our stuff... we choose how to react to it... any damage done is self-inflicted...
kjs
Quote: KJSmyling @ April 23 2008, 8:53 PM BSTThey choose to reject our stuff... we choose how to react to it... any damage done is self-inflicted...
kjs
I wonder, Kjs, is it shared? They just brush scripts off because it doesn't suit their humour? And a rejection [cold] comes in the post, they get on with their job, Does one have to keep trying till one 'hits' the right editor that shares that sense of humour?
With Micheal, he likes Two Pints and the Smoking Room, how like chalk and cheese those sitcoms are.
Then one puts up with the shit that is on
The only person you have to share a sense of humour with is yourself.
Quote: roscoff @ April 23 2008, 9:56 PM BSTThe only person you have to share a sense of humour with is yourself.
very good philosophy Roscoff, come back when you're 67 and say that 
I'll be a dribbling fool by then. Actually.......
I got an email yesterday and got really excited because I thought I had won a case of Michelob - and then I realised what the words really were.
I feel a bit sorry for Michael Jacob. His life must like a scene from Dawn of the Dead, with hordes of needy, desperate new writers all wanting a piece of him. If we don't get through to the final twenty, we at least want to have got through to the final forty, and if that doesn't happen we still want and demand kind words and encouragement about our entries. It must get quite wearing. No wonder he's got such a blached prune-face.
Ooo -- just moved from 20th to 21st. Hard lines, chip!
Dan
I'm actually not going to check my email for a couple of weeks, that way I can convince myself I'm still in it. It's called Hilarly Clinton syndrome when you refuse to face up to reality.
Quote: chipolata @ April 24 2008, 11:43 AM BSTI feel a bit sorry for Michael Jacob. His life must like a scene from Dawn of the Dead, with hordes of needy, desperate new writers all wanting a piece of him. If we don't get through to the final twenty, we at least want to have got through to the final forty, and if that doesn't happen we still want and demand kind words and encouragement about our entries. It must get quite wearing. No wonder he's got such a blached prune-face.
Interesting analogy. So does that mean if I were to bite, say, Bain or Armstrong, they would also become a crap, needy, wannabe writer in desperate need of something - dear God, anything! - by way of encouragement?
This has potential.
'28 Pages Later'
'I Am Not Really A Comedy Legend'
...aaaaand so on.....
Ironically, I just bought I Am Legend from Asda for £8 (and The Omega Man for £3). That's my night taken care of.