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- From: idoy@crux1.cit.cornell.edu (Mike Wilson)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Rejection Slips
- Message-ID: <idoy.724771053@crux1.cit.cornell.edu>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 13:17:33 GMT
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- >Given that the writer has sent a clean, properly formatted manuscript to an
- >appropriate journal or magazine, and that the writer has done the research
- >and *knows* the magazine publishes the style of writing he or she produces,
- >there is no excuse for a magazine that accepts unsolicited submissions
- >to insult a writer's efforts in this way.
-
- >--
- >Brent Jones, Lead Tech. Editor, U S WEST IT, bjones@denitqm.uswest.com
- >"of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer and helplessly have
- >to watch the shadow of his simian stoop leave mangled flowers in its wake,
- >as the monstrous darkness approaches."--V. Nabokov _Signs and Symbols_
-
- I very much agree, but I have to say something in defense of rejection
- slips in general. When I first started reading fiction for the
- _Akwe:kon Journal_, I responded to all submissions with a
- note explaining why the story or poem, in my view, was not for
- our journal. Usually the call was easy: lack of a plot, lack of
- clear imagery in poems, and so forth. By the tone of some of the
- responses I received, however, I soon discovered that this method was far
- too personal, and that a more general rejection made the process
- much less painful for everyone involved.
-
- Mike
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- Michael Wilson
- idoy@crux1.cit.cornell.edu
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