Friday, June 18, 2010

Encouraging rejection

I received a form letter rejection today - which normally would be unremarkable - but it was from a very large magazine, and at the bottom of the form letter, was handwritten:

"It was a pleasure reading your work. Please continue to submit fiction."

Which I consider pretty encouraging.

It was from The New Yorker.

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