by HappinessStan » Sun Jan 09, 2011 12:34 am
Welcome! I've found this to be a friendly and fascinating place, with a vast archive of knowledge and experience. Really can't stress enough how useful just browsing through the replies on this board and Feedback have been for me.
Agree with all of the above, plus:
Write to people you like. Start by writing to people you not only like, but who have a good reputation for replying fairly quickly. The letters will be much easier to write and you'll be heartened and encouraged by early successes.
Don't send a letter which wouldn't make you feel better if you received it yourself.
Don't get too hung up on getting a reply, treat it as an exercise in saying something nice to someone you admire, and look upon the reply as a bonus.
You could go mad trying to apply logic or mathematics to the process of receiving replies; if yours doesn't come back in the same batch as "everyone else" on here then it is likely that it will come back in the next lot, or the lot after that, or in four years time.
If someone always sends an autopen, secretarial, pre-print, refusal or request for money then that is what you will get.
If you've got an address but there's no feedback on here or other boards then it's worth firing off a letter. I've had successes from quite big names where there is no feedback on here, which I put down to following the first point I made.
Enjoy it.
Welcome! I've found this to be a friendly and fascinating place, with a vast archive of knowledge and experience. Really can't stress enough how useful just browsing through the replies on this board and Feedback have been for me.
Agree with all of the above, plus:
Write to people you like. Start by writing to people you not only like, but who have a good reputation for replying fairly quickly. The letters will be much easier to write and you'll be heartened and encouraged by early successes.
Don't send a letter which wouldn't make you feel better if you received it yourself.
Don't get too hung up on getting a reply, treat it as an exercise in saying something nice to someone you admire, and look upon the reply as a bonus.
You could go mad trying to apply logic or mathematics to the process of receiving replies; if yours doesn't come back in the same batch as "everyone else" on here then it is likely that it will come back in the next lot, or the lot after that, or in four years time.
If someone always sends an autopen, secretarial, pre-print, refusal or request for money then that is what you will get.
If you've got an address but there's no feedback on here or other boards then it's worth firing off a letter. I've had successes from quite big names where there is no feedback on here, which I put down to following the first point I made.
Enjoy it.
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