Re-jected!
So, yesterday I got my rejection letter from a certain "artists colony" I'd applied to for next year, therefore eliminating my Escape from New York Plan A. I was a bit wary of the program, anyway, as I suspected it was one of those touchy-feely "let's fingerpaint with our own menstrual blood and howl at the moon" kind of things.
Besides the death of Plan A, though, there is one thing that bothers me about the rejection letter (well, two: my name was misspelled. Wait- could it have been intended for someone else??)
I actually used to write rejection letters for a small publication. Each letter did include some kind of feedback (based on the editor's comments, not my own) to the tune of "you need to work on X" or "while your Y was good, your Z was a bit lacking."
Now, I knew in advance that they were "not able to provide individual critiques," but it didn't occur to me until I had the letter in hand that this meant that, to all appearances, my work was as soundly rejected as the badley poorfread stori abut sadd kittenz.
Ack. On to Plan B I guess.
Besides the death of Plan A, though, there is one thing that bothers me about the rejection letter (well, two: my name was misspelled. Wait- could it have been intended for someone else??)
I actually used to write rejection letters for a small publication. Each letter did include some kind of feedback (based on the editor's comments, not my own) to the tune of "you need to work on X" or "while your Y was good, your Z was a bit lacking."
Now, I knew in advance that they were "not able to provide individual critiques," but it didn't occur to me until I had the letter in hand that this meant that, to all appearances, my work was as soundly rejected as the badley poorfread stori abut sadd kittenz.
Ack. On to Plan B I guess.
posted by Christine Borne at 10:19 AM
4 Comments:
Why are you trying to escape? Are you just one of those people who likes to move ever year? I've moved apartments every year mostly due to apartment or roommate drama and recently back to Cleveland for an internship. Did you ever do study abroad?
I've gotten pretty tired of New York lately - I've decided I really need access to extreme dark and quiet. Maybe I should live in a cave! I never did study abroad - I don't think I was mature or responsible enough for it in my early 20s, or maybe I was too eager to just get out of school and get started with "real life" that the "fripperies" associated with college got pushed to the wayside. I really don't think I took college seriously enough, actually.
Hang in there, Christine, and please stick with it, for our sake (your readers) if nothing else. You have something to say, and you say it well. That's a rarer combination than you might imagine. The world will catch up with that reality eventually. The only way it won't be successful is if you quit on us.
Oh, and happy holidays to you and your family. May 2007 be the year of your breakthrough. Or at least of your first breakthrough.
ha ha! thanks john - dry socket or no dry socket, i'm breaking through, just like my stupid impacted wisdom teeth didn't!
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