{"id":31746,"date":"2017-08-01T22:28:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T05:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=31746"},"modified":"2017-08-01T22:28:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T05:28:45","slug":"just-saying-write-bleed-reject-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=31746","title":{"rendered":"Just Saying:  Write, Bleed, Reject and Repeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>JUST SAYING<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>BY RAUL HERNANDEZ<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Notebookventura@gmail.com<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ernest Hemingway once said: &#8220;There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">So true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I&#8217;ve been busy slicing my wrists in front of my computer screen for years, and quite frankly, I love it. Self-mutilation? Perhaps, but there is the joy that comes after crafting a great story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I have written four books. Two \u2014 Stepping on the Devil&#8217;s Tail and &#8220;The Dead Sea Bar and Grill&#8221; \u2014 were published on Amazon and Kindle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I&#8217;ve been very busy lately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I am doing the final, final editing on my third book, &#8220;The Serape Notebook.&#8221; It is about two brothers growing up in El Paso during the time of the Vietnam War. It is a love story that will be published late this year or early 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">And, I just dug up an old screenplay, &#8220;The Dead Sea Bar and Grill&#8221; that I wrote in 1995 and want to revive. There has been interest lately in the screenplay, and I&#8217;m excited about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The screenplay has a story of its own. In 2001, it got as far as the William Morris Agency in Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In working on the rewrite, I found this gem on Youtube. It is a lengthy interview with UCLA Professor Richard Walter about writing. It is honest, and what I was impressed the most was his choices for examples of great writing \u2014 &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; and &#8220;The Sopranos&#8221; \u2014 were also my favorites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"It\u2019s All About Story And Nothing Else - UCLA Professor Richard Walter [FULL INTERVIEW]\">(It\u2019s All About Story And Nothing Else &#8211; UCLA Professor Richard Walter [FULL INTERVIEW)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_tT_GjjlCLs?ecver=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>MY FRIEND RON<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I was able through friend and developer Ron Smith get my screenplay to the William Morris Agency. Ron had a relative who worked there. I was elated about having some honcho at William Morris look at my screenplay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Before writing the screenplay, I read and re-read at least six books about writing screenplays. I bought copies of several screenplays including &#8220;Platoon,&#8221; and &#8220;The Sting.&#8221; I heard the movies without\u00a0looking at the films.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It was months of preparation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Several weeks after I signed the William Morris Agency release form, which I still have, \u00a0the rejection letter arrived by mail<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The agency&#8217;s letter was constructive criticism, including ways to improve the story and rewriting and resubmitting it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I remember thinking, how could they reject this?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Two weeks ago, I dug up this screenplay. It was in a large plastic box \u00a0at the bottom of a pile of papers and files. I thumbed through the pages and concluded that I would have rejected it too. It needed a lot of work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It needs a lot of work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">But while reading it, I was surprised at just how much work I put into learning how to do proper screenwriting, plotting, dialogue, and formatting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The character dialogue is solid, and the action is steady.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I decided rather than to spend more years rewriting the screenplay. I would rewrite the novel instead. I spent years and countless hours working on it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0I sent query letters and sample chapters of my novel out to agents and got dozens of rejection letters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Some said they liked the story but they didn&#8217;t handle this kind of novel and then, the usual: &#8220;Best of luck in publishing your novel.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> I tried going to publishers and most made it clear that they only allow submissions from literary agents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">When I was getting pummeled with rejections, there was one that ended up on the door of my refrigeration and is still there. It came from a major book publisher Simon &amp; Schuster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> It stated that I came within one board member vote from getting published but they liked &#8220;my voice&#8221; and rejection was full of encouragement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Most of the rejection letters I got were tossed or deleted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Simon &amp; Schuster letter is there for the sole purpose of jump starting my mind when I&#8217;m hemorrhaging, down to a pint of blood and the computer screen and my mind are blank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The rejection letter is near a quote on the refrigerator by a person I admire, Winston Churchill: <em>Never, Never, Never Give Up.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE BEST NOVELS<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Writing, good writing, takes a lot of patience, practice and time along with reading many novels, not just any novel. Only those, as Hemingway said, that are the best.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The best novels, for me, are John Grisham&#8217;s and Daniel Silva&#8217;s books along with books by Steinbeck, Twain, and Dickens. I consider these writers the Rembrandts of writing. They are the deep blue fountains of knowledge about what a great novel is all about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Basically, a great story captivates the imagination and seduces the mind into traveling to fascinating places even if they are courthouses or dark spots where spies gather. And, along the way, the reader meets colorful, despicable or intriguing characters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">BTW: I recently learned one of the most interesting facts about John Grisham. He was a small-town lawyer when he began his writing career, and he was pelted with rejection letters like most writers. Grisham sold his first books out of the trunk of the car, and he did so to pay the publisher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UAGgoisIdtA?ecver=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">More than two decades ago, I told a group of Middle-School youngsters at a creative writing seminar, &#8220;writing is like being a Sculptor, a Roden. You start out with this humongous rock, and each day, you chip away, bit by bit. 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