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Sweet Rejection...
Paynesgrey:
They're all electronic, so I don't want to waste ink and paper printing them up.
Instead, every time I get a rejection, I'm going to shiv a panda.
These editors simply need to decide what's important to them: Stories that fit what they've got in mind for an issue's theme, or pandas.
Snowleopard:
Ebul you are PG.
Picking on poor innocent Pandas. ::) ::)
Paynesgrey:
Hey! It's not my decision. Either they care for endangered species or they don't. My hands are tied. Well, actually, the panda's paws are, but it's a metaphorical tied-hands thing. Except for the panda it's literal.
Snowleopard:
^
LOL ::) ::)
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Paynesgrey on February 06, 2013, 08:00:29 PM ---Hey! It's not my decision. Either they care for endangered species or they don't. My hands are tied. Well, actually, the panda's paws are, but it's a metaphorical tied-hands thing. Except for the panda it's literal.
--- End quote ---
Do I smell the free-will argument insinuating its invidious way even here ?
The thing I most wish I had thought of, myself, in re submitting things to editors, is the person who sent their manuscript a birthday card when it had been in slushpile a year; I heard about it from the editor in question who was tickled into looking at the thing shortly thereafter.
..also, I wish I could write short fiction. Or rather, I wish I could write halfway decent short fiction in any less time than it takes to complete a first draft of a novel. I greatly respect people who can write a thousand-word story in the same sort of timescale it takes to write a thousand-word chapter, but that's not a skill I have.
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