Remember
this guy (who is NOT my father)? He wrote an essay titled "How to Read a Rejection," which on the whole is very interesting. You can read it
here. Consider his words of wisdom on the power dynamics involved in rejection:
As someone who has been writing letters of rejection 30 or 40 times a day for
more than 35 years, I have considerable sympathy for my friend the writer-and
an appreciation for the dilemma of "the editor," someone compelled
to reject far more often than accept and to manage relationships with writers
that are wildly lopsided. The editor has almost obscenely exaggerated power,
since the ratio of candidates to published stories is so enormous (at least 1,000
to 1 at the Atlantic Monthly) and the writer's emotional stake in acceptance
or rejection is so huge.
He parses out the meaning of different rejections, and offers some insight, probably nothing you don't already know. Still, a helpful read.
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