Dig out your rejected manuscripts. Chris Glithero highlights alternative ways to put them to use
Remember that novel manuscript you worked tirelessly on, the one you pumped countless ions of mental energy and buckets of perspiration into? The one you slaved over for months and even years, reluctantly brushing family members and social occasions away to toil on? The one you believed in and boldly cast into the unknowing void of agents and publishers, only to see it returned, unloved and unpublished? The one that now sits in a drawer gathering dust, or clinging to the lonely digital echoes of the keyboard’s chatter in a long forgotten corner of your hard drive?