Scrawled beneath the boilerplate: “A beautiful manuscript whose discursive ambitiousness isn’t suitable for our editorial needs. Keep up the great work.”
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Scrawled beneath the boilerplate: “A beautiful manuscript whose discursive ambitiousness isn’t suitable for our editorial needs. Keep up the great work.”
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Reminds me of King’s On Writing or whatever it was called. He wrote a little bit about a comment he got just like that and how it motivated him to keep writing. I’m not even sure what “discursive ambitiousness” means, but if it means entertaining, readable, and informative, I agree.
The best kind of rejection–congratulations!
I had a friend in the poetry workshop at Iowa who was saving all her rejections, of any sort, and planned eventually, in some future, more prosperous time, to have them printed on to a piece of silk, have the silk made into a dress, and wear said dress to readings. I also went to a Halloween party to which someone came dressed as a rejection slip. It was, needless to say, a writer’s party.
Oh, thanks, Blake and Laura. I love both ideas–wearing rejection slips (I still wear slips when I wear a dress anyway–they keep me warm and make sure my dress doesn’t hike up my fanny) and the reminder about King. A teacher wrote to say it means I just need to find the right audience for the piece.
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