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It’s nice to just send something out into space, so much more vague and abstract (and pleasantly so) than having my thoughts in print, right there, in black and white. Blogs are on the web, which is some ephemeral technology that I don’t fully understand anyway, and can’t really comprehend in the same way that I can’t really comprehend a billion dollars. Meaningless. Therefore I write all kinds of things that I probably would never say or write in real life, because it tickles me and it doesn’t really do any harm anyway because in a few days the entry will be buried in the archives and the three people that have read it will be busy with other things.

Sunday, May 14, 2006

Rejection Makes Me Happy

I got my first rejection slip yesterday - from the Alaska Quarterly Review. It came so speedily, a mere couple of weeks after I sent it, that it startled me, sitting there in the mailbox. Now I kinda feel like a real writer.

Ah, grasshopper, in rejection, at last we find acceptance.

posted by erin | 8:10 PM

1 Comments:

Blogger Jessie said...

err--congratulations! now you're a real writer. :)-

8:10 AM  

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