As a struggling writer, I've had my fair share of rejections. In fact, I've had what I like to believe is significantly MORE than a fair share, but what, in actuality, is likely not anywhere near whatever the cosmos have deemed "fair" for me yet.
Point is, I'm not tying all my hopes to any one piece, or publication, any more.
Moreover, I applaud the use of (by which I mean use-with-followup) online forms. I don't even use paper towels anymore, so the amount of trees that have died just to make sure someone read my pieces weighs on my conscience, and the cost of stamps weighs on my finances. A rough estimate would show somewhere between 1/4 and 1/3 of my writerly write-offs last year as stamps, many of them on self-addressed envelopes that have never flown home.
And of course I value expediency if I intend to send this same piece to some other possible home.
But all that said, "hearing back" from a publication you have propositioned in an hour or less with the same form e-mail you've received every other time? Kind of offensive. Tell me that you already have a piece similar to this from another author, or that some other piece of mine is under consideration, and better, or that for reasons x, y, and z, this just sucked - anything but "despite the evident merit of this piece, it is not a good fit for us."
With turnaround like that, a girl's liable to suspect you of being a bit disingenuous, sirs.
-Posted by Jilly
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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