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Demystifying “a good fit”
Posted on August 18, 2014 Leave a Comment
The phrase “a good fit” is often deployed in rejection letters and is rarely expanded upon, leaving the recipient wondering WHY the piece wasn’t a good fit for that publication at that moment in time. If you’re like me, you don’t care what the reason is, you just know that the editor wasn’t interested for […]
Time to revise
Posted on August 11, 2014 Leave a Comment
Writing original work is obviously the lifeblood of a writer. But that’s only one part of the equation if you want to be a published writer. Just ask my students. After teaching the genre of creative nonfiction in my Advanced Composition class for four semesters, and requiring that students not only write two pieces for […]
Purging the blockage
Posted on August 8, 2014 Leave a Comment
If you’re like me, you have some unresolved issues floating around in your brainpan. These unresolved issues have never been written about in any real or substantial way because family. I have been essentially holding my writer’s tongue for my whole life because of that nagging concern of hurting someone. However, this is the exact […]
The positive rejection
Posted on August 4, 2014 5 Comments
“Thank you for sending us your brief essay ‘Handlining for students’. This one came very close, up to the final round of decision making, in fact, but we’ve decided to pass. I don’t know if that makes you feel good or if such ‘close but no cigar’ news is just hard to hear, but we […]
Amanda Morris, Ph.D. 