Rejection Response OTD, Unadultered
[Roxane Gay / December 1st, 2010 / Self-congratulatory Nonsense & Shiny ]Dear Roxanne,
Thanks for your thoughtful response. I agree the work is one of my weaker efforts, but I had the idea that I might find a place for it if only I set my sites low enough.
Thanks again,
Writer
Before I even realized how insulting this was, I noticed the extra “n” and that “sights” is misspelled.
Right? It’s so hard to take venom seriously when it comes off a poisoned tongue. “Sites.”
BURN! YOU ARE SO MODED!
I thought maybe “sites” was a pun?
everybody loves a punny insult
It was not a pun.
I thought this, too.
Regardless, if I was a British detective, I would exclaim this as preposterous.
Shucks. I wanted to read the thoughtful response.
One for the collection, me thinks.
Wow, that is seriously amazing. Why would you?
That sad reality is that some writers do not realize that this attitude is so detrimental to their own progress, so futile.
Their is a difference between a bold sense of pride and outright foolishness.
*There