February 2012
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The Context Of Rejection
“Manuscripts are unwieldy, but the real reason for that time ratio is that most of them are a fast reject. Herewith, the rough breakdown of manuscript characteristics, from most to least obvious rejections:”
13 Reasons Novels Get Rejected By Publishers
via http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/
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On The Ning Nang Nong
Heard our kid (7) reciting this in bed the other night and giggling like a loon. I’m chuffed to bits, Spike was a comedy genius.
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On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! and the monkeys all say BOO! There’s a...
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I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous...
– Thomas Jefferson Letter to John Taylor May 28, 1816
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The Trouble With 'Why?'
David Simon is right: people are happy with knowing ‘who’ ‘what’ ‘when’ ‘where’ ‘how’, but the ‘why’ just takes too much effort. Shit happens and people get fucked over, yet very few people in positions that can effect change look to know the ‘why’, satisfying themselves with whatever glib bullshit they’ve...
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We are our own enemy because, ultimately, we are the people who accept shit and...
– David Simon
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All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives...
– George Orwell | Why I Write