Talking and Not Talking opportunity Page 11

Quote: ContainsNuts @ May 12 2009, 2:18 PM BST

That must have been the fiercest competition of all writing ones.

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It'd still be quite dull if you televised it.

Yup - I got that email. Bloody hell ! What's things coming to ? I feel I'm a great success - not because I got anything in a show, but because someone sent me an email !!

Just off to frame it...

Surely everybody gets that email! Or will do.

18000!!! They should have been more specific with their request, e.g. said along lines of "we want one set of 10 short character-based replies", which having listened to vox pops from the previous series is what they wanted. Instead they basically said "we want one-liners in answer to any question you can think of" - that's like a red rag to a bull.

Fenster Exactly

Well it would be - if I'd received one...

I got the following flat-out rejection email about an hour ago:

Hi,

Thanks for your submission to Talking and Not Talking - unfortunately we
haven't used any of your material this time round.

We've had about 18,000 one-liners to read, in addition to putting the
rest of the show together, so apologies for not getting back to you
sooner. Also, as you can probably appreciate, with this level of
response it just isn't practical to send individual feedback to
everyone.

Same here. Nice end of day kick in the nuts.
Still there's always...
Umm...

sigh... off to find some ice.

Me too. After nothing from CoC, this rejection is like manna from heaven...

Dan

Yep - rejection. Must be wading through them with the reply button of doom...

Me too and I had been asked to send some more at one point.

Cah!!

Got it today.

Had been on my mind until this point but now they've sent the rejection I'm strangely not bothered at all.

Just got mine!

And me.

Got mine today.

As I wasn't originally rejected, in my head I was expecting a phone call saying 'we loved your stuff and want you to write for the show, in fact we've fired all the previous writers because we don't need them any more', and I'd interrupt, 'wait a sec, I'm sure they've got kids and families, I'd rather you didn't' and they'd say 'ok, but only if you read everything they produce first and make sure it's up to standard' and I'd say 'ok, but pay me a million pounds a year' and they'd say 'really? We were thinking two million' even though I was originally joking.

Dammit.

I got mine too. I felt too sympathetic to the young lady sending all those rejection emails out to feel gutted about my work not being used.