Another polite rejection. Some people said they weren’t sure what I was talking about in the last post, about McSweeney’s and Lists and what not, so here is a short explanation: McSweeney’s is hard to describe because they publish many types of writing, from fiction to poems (sestinas, mainly) to Open Letters to Recipients Not …
Got this back on the Rejection Express today. I think I’m just not getting the tone quite right, even though I think the lists I’m submitting are funny at an appropriately advanced level. Failed Massively Multiplayer Roleplaying Games By Josh Berthume Rappers of the Caribbean – Errrbody on the Boat Gettin’ Scurrrvy Bob Saget’s Entourage …
Joe: You can’t have an overabundance of earthquakes. One is too much.
One earthquake is an overabundance.
1:07 PM me: But they are tiny adorable earthquakes!
Joe: And earthquakes don’t abound.
I don’t think you can have an overabundance of anything that isn’t a physical thing.
Can you have a surfeit of wind?
ANSWER ME THAT MOTHERFUCKER
Part of being a professional writer is being rejected. I thought it would be informative to show you what things I’ve submitted that get passed on for publication and to tell you why, if the editor was kind of enough to let me know. This was my first ever submission to McSweeney’s which, as literary …