{"id":2052,"date":"2008-03-20T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:42","slug":"toon-thursday-stages-of-rejection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2052","title":{"rendered":"Toon Thursday: Stages of Rejection #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_AS3Nr1ChgcU\/R-Ll0b0GL_I\/AAAAAAAAASY\/FJCosySTSts\/s1600-h\/7StagesRejection-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/7StagesRejection-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179955210411716594\" \/><\/a><br \/>We&#8217;re well underway on our &#8220;Seven Stages of Rejection&#8221; now. The irony, of course, is that I&#8217;ve already gotten over the rejection that spawned this seven-week burst of creativity, and I&#8217;ve already sent out new queries and gotten on with my life. On the other hand, I don&#8217;t have to agonize over cartoon ideas for the next few weeks. Hmm&#8230;perhaps that rejection had quite a significant silver lining. (<a href=\"http:\/\/writingya.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/toon-thursday-in-which-i-honor-and.html\">Click here<\/a> for Stage One, in case you missed last week.)<br \/>Speaking of cartoons about rejection, I came across an excellent cartoon (originally from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/statshot\/why_was_our_novel_rejected\">The Onion<\/a>) on <a href=\"http:\/\/ktliterary.com\/2008\/03\/a-bit-of-funny.html\">reasons for rejection<\/a> at the blog of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktliterary.com\/\">kt literary<\/a>. The blog is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktliterary.com\/daphne.html\">Ask Daphne!<\/a> and it&#8217;s got a lot of useful info from an agent&#8217;s perspective.<br \/>I&#8217;ll be back tomorrow&#8211;with my first-ever contribution to Poetry Friday! Now I&#8217;ve announced it to the public at large, so I can&#8217;t wuss out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re well underway on our &#8220;Seven Stages of Rejection&#8221; now. The irony, of course, is that I&#8217;ve already gotten over the rejection that spawned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,109,77,10,73,52],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-stages-of-rejection","tag-toon-thursday","tag-views","tag-world-o-blogs","tag-writing-daze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4799,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/4799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}