Comments on: Deep Thoughts in Nonfiction

By: asamariabradley.com » Blog Archive » “…I may freely address you as ‘pissmidget’”

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:25:10 +0000

[...] words on paper plummeted to the lowest low when Monday’s mail brought two rejection letters. Scott, Shira, and Sam have already “barked” on the subject and I don’t have anything to add other [...]

By: bark » “…I may freely address you as ‘pissmidget’”

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:23:28 +0000

By: Andreas

Andreas — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:25:49 +0000

also, i’ve never been good at essays. always following forms and too scared to break those forms. this is certainly something i need work on.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:24:32 +0000

i keep reading instances of handwritten rejections. the letters i get could be written by a robot.

By: Asa Maria

Asa Maria — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:46:00 +0000

This definitely falls under the category of “a good rejection” Scott. My last one—received earlier this week—was a mass email addressed to “Dear Writer.”

By: Asa Maria

Asa Maria — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:43:39 +0000

Yes please! Maybe we can convince Natalie to change next quarter’s F&T to this topic.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:56:09 +0000

Well done sir. Very true, so many essayists have trouble landing the plane. Not positive who you are or if we’ve met, but solely on the basis of this column i shall accept your ‘friend request.’ :)

By: AmandaMead

AmandaMead — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:50:06 +0000

i have a tendency to wrap up my nonfiction essays with a sweet little bow…or a lesson/moral. it’s awful. i think there needs to be an entire class on “how to write an ending.”

By: Dan J. Vice

Dan J. Vice — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:20:29 +0000

Scott: I wasn’t going to comment because I don’t know that I have anything to add, but I should say how much I liked this. Well observed. Very smart.

By: tanya debuff

tanya debuff — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:20:20 +0000

When I was in undergrad fancied myself a poet and I once got a rejection written on an old envelope, on which the editor or whoever had, of course, summarily dismissed my crappy poems, but he also wrote, on the spot I assume, a short poem about a wagon. To show me what a real poem looks like? It was the most interesting rejection I’ve gotten-to date anyway.