www.inkthinkerblog.com — Over in the AboutFreelanceWriting.com forum, Alicia shared this fun link with three tips for handling rejections and a run-down of several famous writers’ and works’ rejection histories.
My favorite part was an excerpt of a rejection from an economic journal in China:
“We have read your manuscript with boundless delight. If we were to publish your paper, it would be impossible for us to publish any work of lower standard. And as it is unthinkable that in the next thousand years we shall see its equal, we are, to our regret, compelled to return your divine composition, and to beg you a thousand times to overlook our short sight and timidity.”
Reminds me of that great rejection I kinda, sorta, didn’t really get from The New Yorker.
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