tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post2039636671363442603..comments2024-03-25T20:40:44.806-04:00Comments on Literary Rejections on Display Now Has Long COVID: Bad Satire, Really BadWriter, Rejectedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241982229214057815noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-6657715871901140812009-01-09T18:46:00.000-05:002009-01-09T18:46:00.000-05:00Gough: ...That collapse in confidence is choking t...Gough: ...That collapse in confidence is choking the flow of ideas that is so vitally important to our literature....<BR/><BR/>Me: zzzzzz <BR/><BR/>Hello, flow check anyone? <BR/><BR/>I've tutored ten year olds who write with better flow than that piece has. I know it's supposed t be a spoof of legislation, but legislation is boring. zzzzzzzzAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-74937918648327630672009-01-09T14:45:00.000-05:002009-01-09T14:45:00.000-05:00Good idea, but I got it in about three lines, and ...Good idea, but I got it in about three lines, and then there wasn't much else. Now if only George Saunders had written something like this, then it would actually be funny . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-46914109775466113352009-01-09T12:41:00.000-05:002009-01-09T12:41:00.000-05:00It's not the message, it's the execution. Terribl...It's not the message, it's the execution. Terrible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-15013697956525317372009-01-09T10:37:00.000-05:002009-01-09T10:37:00.000-05:00Foolishness??????I think this is very good satire,...Foolishness??????<BR/>I think this is very good satire, because at heart it's dead serious and makes a point.<BR/>Which is: there's something wrong in today's publishing world and something should be done about it.<BR/>Read this, folks. It's short.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-31263481046457164492009-01-09T08:59:00.000-05:002009-01-09T08:59:00.000-05:00So if I just start using the "find/replace" featur...So if I just start using the "find/replace" feature on my word processor, can I become a satirist, too?Bitterly Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18308645214799151401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-74052813855763086132009-01-09T08:50:00.000-05:002009-01-09T08:50:00.000-05:00I didn't think it was that bad. A pretty thin joke...I didn't think it was that bad. A pretty thin joke that gets stretched too far, but that's pretty common with satire. Just look at the sketches on Saturday Night Live.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com