I Reject Your Reality...
I just got a scary rejection letter.
Not scathing, though it is, but scary--as in you're fairly sure the editor has forgotten to take certain key meds and you get a creepy rambling missive of random, making reference to intimacies and events that never happened, using English in non-proscribed ways, and you realise the pure horror of having inadvertently made contact with dangerous crazy...and even worse--thanks to the stupidity of submission 'standards'--crazy HAS YOUR ADDRESS.
So, if said person is even half as bug eyed stalker as s/he appears in email, you may just open your eyes tonight or next week to a body above your bed, muttering about egg yolks or whatever.
It's really not a good feeling.
I never really know what to do about it. I don't suppose there is anything. I just do what I usually do, make note of the rejection, file the email in my archives, move on. Make note to never sub to crazy central again.
If I ever get found having been stabbed to death by like three hundred plastic forks, or having been barbequed with popples and pringles, somebody check my archive. The fork chipper is probably in there.
For the statistically curious, I probably get a couple of these for every one hundred subs. So if the filter is set to absolute batshit, it's probably less than 3%.
But it still feels like way too much...
Not scathing, though it is, but scary--as in you're fairly sure the editor has forgotten to take certain key meds and you get a creepy rambling missive of random, making reference to intimacies and events that never happened, using English in non-proscribed ways, and you realise the pure horror of having inadvertently made contact with dangerous crazy...and even worse--thanks to the stupidity of submission 'standards'--crazy HAS YOUR ADDRESS.
So, if said person is even half as bug eyed stalker as s/he appears in email, you may just open your eyes tonight or next week to a body above your bed, muttering about egg yolks or whatever.
It's really not a good feeling.
I never really know what to do about it. I don't suppose there is anything. I just do what I usually do, make note of the rejection, file the email in my archives, move on. Make note to never sub to crazy central again.
If I ever get found having been stabbed to death by like three hundred plastic forks, or having been barbequed with popples and pringles, somebody check my archive. The fork chipper is probably in there.
For the statistically curious, I probably get a couple of these for every one hundred subs. So if the filter is set to absolute batshit, it's probably less than 3%.
But it still feels like way too much...
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