3 posts tagged “commercial whore”
Sometimes you get a rejection that makes you erase the play board and start over.
I drank too much coffee yesterday and was awake too late, thereby putting myself at risk of the dreaded unexpected late-night e-mail rejection. It was one of those rejections that's hard to set aside, because it was personalized and it came from a place I'm already familiar with: obvious writing talent and not a commercially viable project.
I know this about the book I've been querying. It's too big, too convoluted, a bit too smart to be straight genre, but I love the book. I want people to read the book, but I'm not without a certain amount of pragmatism. After eleven rejections, knowing what I know, I'm putting this one on indefinite hiatus. It's time to move on.
The next book I'm querying is distinctly more commercial, so at least I don't have that hurdle, but that whole issue is weighing on me pretty heavily as I try to decide what project to work on next. I always have about half a dozen things waiting in the wings, but as I work on a decision, I thought I'd ask my Voxy neighbors what kind of things you're interested in reading these days. What sorts of stories, issues, people are you interested in?
Have you ever had a dream that came true?
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Really, it was more of a nightmare, but it has definitely come true, and you, QotD, you've helped it come true. In my nightmare, advertising had taken over everything so that everything was "brought to you by" somebody. Where everything, no matter how innocent, was used to pimp a product. So, hey, QotD, way to whore yourself out.
Every time I watch TV--about twice a week, once for Lost, once for Arrested Development--I can't help but notice that nearly every commercial is for a car manufacturer. It's a little like going out to a bar and being hit on. Some of these commercials have a pretty straight forward come on: they show you the vehicle driving around on beautiful highways, or tearing up dirt roads. Other commercials are going for subtle. One shows a variety of beautiful nature scenes and people enjoying them, one shows highlights from the 60's, including requisite hippies with an old VW van, but of course, at the end, just like guys in bars, they have to cut to the chase...buy the car. Buy the car. I'm sorry, but at some point have these car manufacturers not noticed that every single American who wants a car and can afford one, ALREADY OWNS AT LEAST ONE?! There's no one sitting at home, thinking, If I saw the right car, I guess I'd go ahead and buy my first one. Sorry, there just isn't. We already own cars. It's not like a razor, where you might see a new design (one with seven blades perhaps...) and decide to buy that brand the next time you're at the store. It's a car, people.
