tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post6062206022176049567..comments2024-03-25T20:40:44.806-04:00Comments on Literary Rejections on Display Now Has Long COVID: Classically DeLISHiousWriter, Rejectedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241982229214057815noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-26372324711743098912007-12-20T20:41:00.000-05:002007-12-20T20:41:00.000-05:00This one is acceptable.This one is acceptable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-39115574840470108782007-12-20T12:41:00.000-05:002007-12-20T12:41:00.000-05:00"Yes, it is no on this, yes--""Don't do what Donny..."Yes, it is no on this, yes--"<BR/><BR/>"Don't do what Donny Don't does."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703861414547309188.post-60154855953619733972007-12-20T12:26:00.000-05:002007-12-20T12:26:00.000-05:00This brings me back to youth like just about nothi...This brings me back to youth like just about nothing in the world can do. I have this very rejection, up in the front of my first rejection folder, from the eager hopeful college days. I can never forget that opening -- "Yes, it is no on this, yes" -- and the feeling I got from getting Scrawls from Lish. Then the Quarterly folded, I focused on making money, and now back into the literary scene with a decade's worth of polished manuscripts, I realize that yes, my important work is still unpublished, and like the work that will eventually be left behind me, I have been growing old.Nonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07448944944109895674noreply@blogger.com