Not Actually Borges ([info]bushidobrown) wrote,

Third Rejection Letter

Hi Benjamin,

Thanks for submitting to Pindeldyboz, but I'm going to pass on this
story.  It's an intriguing scene, but it feels a little rushed,
particularly once the narrator starts trying to help the baby.  For
example, I'm not clear why the baby is a "half-formed lopsided thing"
-- is this just from its injuries or is there something else wrong
with it?  I'd also like a bit more clarification about the experience
the narrator and Jamie have -- are they just in training as
paramedics, or have they been in the field before?  I think the scene
reads a bit differently if it's their first field experience than if
they are vacationing EMTs.

Thanks,
Whitney Steen
Web Editor, Pindeldyboz

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Not as enthusiastic as the last two.  This is the story I submitted.

First rejection letter.
Second rejection letter.

Welp - I got some reading to do.  Another hundred pages, and then I still haven't done research for either the Joyce or the James papers.
Tags: england, writing

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[info]bushidobrown

May 1 2007, 09:23:08 UTC 5 years ago

Sure.

[info]happy_green_tea

April 30 2007, 05:53:52 UTC 5 years ago

i saw your adiml BUT it was deleted (way to break an inoccuous rule) before i could comment but i couldn't let go of the george eliot reference...

wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles

way to be some kind of semi-obscure literary... guy. i'm impressed.

[info]bushidobrown

April 30 2007, 08:25:55 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks, but that's not actually the quote - it's even more obscure than that - it's got to do with little kids scowling at mirrors.

WTF was up with that deletion? I wish they'd given me a warning so I could have fixed it - took me an hour to put that post together, and they deleted the only copy.

[info]ruthifus

May 1 2007, 09:14:04 UTC 5 years ago

Oh yeah I think I forgot to say that I saw your ADIML, that's why I started reading your entries.
So I am not actually some random stalker, although maybe that would have been more interesting.
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