Given my personal background, I should've tried my hand writing game reviews at that point. While I had been in Columbus during grad school, I created a set of Civil War miniatures rules designed to work in conjunction with Johnny Reb. During 1997 though, in a moment of boredom I dusted them off and began planning a demo game at our store. This probably wouldn't have mattered, and would exist only as a memory of a really cool in-store event, except I was getting a bit frustrated as a retailer. While sitting over the computer reworking some rules, I started to think about publishing the rules.
Rejection is part of writing.
If you cannot handle rejection, art of any sort is not for you. You're no different. We're not interested. Even more funny is being told that less than six hours before winning an Origins Award this year. It seems funny now, but the manner of rejections like this when I was starting left me rather angry and it was that second comment about novices that led me to start my own company, Jolly Roger Games.