Again, eh?
Monday, February 1st, 2010Well, the last time I decided to get back in the swing of things here I promptly caused technical difficulties galore and, owing to hellish amounts of overtime at my day job, never got around to correcting those problems for quite some time. I am not working quite so much overtime now so it should not be too darned tough to keep up with this a bit more regularly. Mind you, I’m not a fanatic.
I am still a relatively unpublished and unpublishable poet, although I am going through one of my periods of actively submitting to every magazine under the sun. I am also shopping around a couple of book manuscripts that are also likely to wind up self-published before long if they continue to draw the same level of interest they have found so far (which is to say none). People who spend a lot of their time submitting articles and poems and what not to little magazines are accustomed to rejection letters that come in two flavor, form rejections and personal rejections. Most folks prefer to have a personal rejection even if it is just a hastily scribbled “thanks, but no thanks” rather than a form letter. I’m almost to the point of deciding I’d rather receive a form letter. I’ve gotten a few rejections in the last year or so that are of the “really enjoyed your work. We can’t use it, best of luck elsewhere” variety. I don’t know why it bugs me, but it bugs me. I think I’d feel better if they just came out and abused the work. I mean if they don’t want to publish it, doesn’t that mean they don’t like it? Why not tell me so? Maybe I should introduce them to some of the women I’ve asked out in the last year. none of them had any problem with finding fault.
On the other hand, if women had a form letter for that, the world would be a better place.