He won't be rejected because he's a man. He'll be rejected because (1) his writing isn't good enough and (2) even if his writing improves to the point where it might be salable, he has demonstrated that he won't be a good person to work with.
In my old job there was a pianist that thought he was so great he didn't have to do a concert in a podunk town. He skipped out on the concert, and lost the rest of his bookings, his agent, and there were cheers when he got washed out of the Van Cliburn competition.
If the question is, 'do I get the one that is the best, but is unreliable and hard to work with or the one that isn't quite as good but is reliable and easy to work with' most people will go for the latter.
For some reason, this is hard for a lot of people to understand.
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Date: 2006-10-29 09:34 pm (UTC)In my old job there was a pianist that thought he was so great he didn't have to do a concert in a podunk town. He skipped out on the concert, and lost the rest of his bookings, his agent, and there were cheers when he got washed out of the Van Cliburn competition.
If the question is, 'do I get the one that is the best, but is unreliable and hard to work with or the one that isn't quite as good but is reliable and easy to work with' most people will go for the latter.
For some reason, this is hard for a lot of people to understand.