A REJECTION EMAIL FROM A FAMED LITERARY EDITOR TO MANNY FURIOUS….

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Greetings Manny,

 

I've read this entire manuscript and would not recommend that you continue on this track. I agree that protagonists don't have to be likable, but your characters are not interesting at all and no one will want to read about them.

 I don't want to waste your time or money by encouraging you with unrealistic expectations. My sincere advice is to stop what you're doing and consider how to use your skills as a writer to go in an entirely new and more demanding direction. Consider a story based on what you know, but with some potential for real drama, action, transformation (sic), change, comedy, tragedy, human spirit, wisdom, inspiration.

 Having worked with some writers who go to the edge – H*****, T** *., K*******, others --  I can say with admittedly subjective and idiosyncratic perspective that  what you're doing so far is puerile, pointless and has in my opinion no potential for enlightenment, intellectual value, or entertainment.

 

Keep Reading.

                                                               

(Editor’s note: Manny Furious did not know the meaning of the term, “puerile” and had to look it up in the dictionary.)

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