Waiting is shit, isn't it?
Anyone else waiting for pant-shittingly important emails or phone calls that could make or break their writing career? I guess we all are, really.
The thing is I'd love the be the kind of person ho goes 'Well, there's nothing I can do now, I might as well not fret about it' but I'm not. I get all pent up and can't write, so months of unproductiveness goes by.
Bloody waiting. How can I ease the pain? I think suicide is the only way out.
i hate waiting too. i can't do anything apart from look at bad ladies.
The only way to avoid the pregnant pause and horrible unproductive gulf is to have so many projects on the go that you're too busy to notice time passing. I have a sitcom pilot and a novel edit on-hold and next in the queue after I press the 'send' button tonight.
And have a go at the NaNuNaNu thing - and Angeleye etc.
I'm just going to write a load of rubbish on that November thing - no change there then!
not really saying anything new here, but after i send something out, i start somethingg new or continue on with something I've already started.
Quote: Seefacts @ October 14, 2007, 9:07 PMWaiting is shit, isn't it?
Anyone else waiting for pant-shittingly important emails or phone calls that could make or break their writing career?
But is that actually healthy to think of it as a "make or break" kind of situation?
You're a farmer with produce to sell. Assuming your produce is worthy of being bought, if one buyer doesn't want it, then another will.
You're reading too much into an acceptance.
You are learning the art of patience the hard way.
Relax, you'll get everything you want if you're patient, persistent, and persevering.
Not writing while waiting for replies is taking your eyes off the goal of being a paid writer. You gotta keep churning them out and adding to your catalogue.
Quote: SlagA @ October 14, 2007, 9:29 PMThe only way to avoid the pregnant pause
I also seem only to get pregnant pauses when i'm expecting. Adam has left the building 
My dogs not fat, she's just a little pregnant paws, aren't you? Aren't you? Yes you are.
If I had sent something out to a Production Company or similar I would be RELIEVED to have got it out there.
What are you worried about?
Failure?
ok... <bites nails uncontollably..>
It is better than spending hours waiting in waiting rooms - though I find I do quite a lot of writing then!
maybe it would help if you gave them a ring, just to chase them along. let them know how you are counting the minutes and that you're not really happy with the delay. if they don't give you an answer then, ring them back in an hour or so. and then keep calling every hour until they give you a decision. make sure you ask about their internal complaints procedure in your first call.
Or hang around outside their offices, throw things at the windows and cry a lot.
The best thing to do is to identify someone really important at their company, e.g. Managing Director, then:
1. Ring them and tell how they couldn't be so stupid as to reject your piece.
2. Ask them what think they are playing at?
3. Remind them that they wouldn't have a business without excellent writers like you and that you've a good mind to take your work elsewhere.
4. Tell them that you've shit people like them.
This method never fails.
You'll be through the door like a shot!
Good luck!!!
Good luck with this Seefacts and Slaaaaaaaaaaaags!