https://chicating.dreamwidth.org/ chicating - Dreamwidth Studios Fri, 29 May 2026 18:23:29 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios chicating personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/16400988/222407 https://chicating.dreamwidth.org/ 100 95 https://chicating.dreamwidth.org/105344.html Fri, 29 May 2026 18:23:29 GMT https://chicating.dreamwidth.org/105344.html Another happy-talk rejection, complete with added feedback I paid for because I'm a masochist. This was a poem, so actually, rewrites wouldn't(couldn't?) be that extensive, but I don't know how much I care that this is the one, anyway. Maybe I should keep poetry as a private pursuit. I've never been a craftswoman, exactly, the kind of writer who's all "They changed a comma and DESTROYED my whole thought." which is probably good as I don't get treated reverently, even when I succeed, but maybe that has made me, if not lazy, a bit half-assed. Maybe I really should drill down and polish that little fucker(starting with the right attitude often helps, ha ha) till it gleams. And I know these places are halfway hoping for "I'll show them!1" #ShePersisted but sometimes I think I used all that that I will ever have, like, getting out of high school, or at most on The Degree That Never Mattered.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=chicating&ditemid=105344" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://chicating.dreamwidth.org/105344.html writing persistence rejection poetry public 1