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May. 24th, 2005 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dichroicA few months ago, a kind friend alerted me to an upcoming poetry anthology collecting material on the Southwest, a subject she knew I'd written about since I live here. I don't generally write for publication, as a matter of quality, but I picked out three relevant entries and sent them in, barely in time to make the May 1 deadline (and complete with an SASE and double-spacing). I got a nice rejection letter yesterday, stating that they'd received an unprecedented number of submissions, over 1400 poems from over 500 authors. The letter was typed, but included a handwritten note, "I liked Sonoran Storms best!"
I'm not upset at the rejection, a state of mind much easier to achieve when you don't have aims to be a professional writer. The question is, is this rejection so prompt that I can conclude he didn't even think about it? The poems are very short, though, and fairly transparent. Or is the personal note something I ought to be chuffed about?
I'm not upset at the rejection, a state of mind much easier to achieve when you don't have aims to be a professional writer. The question is, is this rejection so prompt that I can conclude he didn't even think about it? The poems are very short, though, and fairly transparent. Or is the personal note something I ought to be chuffed about?
