Just a quick note to let anyone know who was unaware, I've got a new site up http://www.rejectionwiki.com which allows you to check your rejection against our growing collection of standard and tiered rejections as well as enter any rejections that you've received which are new to the system.
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The point is, if you receive a rejection letter and you're not sure if the agent is being genuinely complimentary or if it's a form letter you can check to see if others received the same one.
Really, not too much point though, unless the letter mentions story specifics, odds are it's a form.
Really, not too much point though, unless the letter mentions story specifics, odds are it's a form.
Yep, pretty much. It's geared towards journal rejections though, where tiered form rejections are perhaps as much feedback as you get (or at least as much as I get). Given the general asymmetry of information in the submission/rejection process, it's nice to know that a story at least made it past the first round.
I can see the point. Like I got a rejection the other day that seemed like a form, except that it was on letterhead, included my name, and mentioned an aspect of my bio -- not a specific one, but one that applies to a significant minority of queriers. And it made me wonder whether someone bothered to type that part in as personalization, or they have a wide range of rejection forms/mail merges to choose from.
Not that it matters -- it was a no -- except that obsessive curiosity matters when that's all you have.
Not that it matters -- it was a no -- except that obsessive curiosity matters when that's all you have.
I had some [expletive deleted] spend much of the last couple of days vandalizing the site. Rather than spend 2-3 hours a day cleaning up after him, I've temporarily turned off public editing. It will come back sometime next week. With luck, he'll get bored and move on to annoying somebody else instead.
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