Okay, people, start thinking.

Two rejections in one weekend. Yeah, I am a major talent. Apparently magazines "don't think of me that way" either.

Send the rejected work or works elsewhere. You are a talent. All sorts of reason an editor may reject a work. Do I have to pull out the list of best selling and classic works that were rejected twenty or thirty times before being accepted?

BTW, I had a dream that I think would make a good story - but not a short post. I've noticed that my longer dream narratives don't usually get much response, so should I assume it won't be of any value, or should I post it just in case?

The short version: a couple who made a great sacrifice that did not produce the results everyone hoped for - so now they have to deal with disappointment and hostility from a public that expected them to be saviors and now has face saving themselves the hard way. They also have to adjust psychologically to having given up a great deal with out great results. It also is in the context of some very bleak and often funny world building. I will post the details if anyone is interested.

Not really...I've heard it. Most recently about "The Help.My mother told me that book was rejected sixty times."That doesn't mean I might not be doing something really wrong and not knowing it.(And the whole "Confederacy of Dunces" thing keeps every creative-writing student going, but surely there can't be that many unrecognized geniuses.) I'd feel better if I had something else. I don't, and this is still a bad time to get a real estate license. ETA: If I ever send anything out again, it won't be this one...that was like the third and fourth time...this one doesn't work.(I mean, I could pretend that it was just too profound to be appreciated by lower humans, but it could just be a turd it took me a month to grunt out.)

Of course, some helpful poster at Daily Kos pointed out that our region's water is about to give out any second now, so maybe all my life angst is beside the point anyway. Fingers crossed.

I always find your dream narratives interesting, Typo. I even wrote a quote from one in my "Quotes I like" section of my notebook: "The dead aren't necessarily malicious, but they are always selfish." I was really interested in reading a story in that world.

Or maybe I'm just fascinated because I NEVER remember my dreams, so the fact that you bring so much info back is really interesting. Anyway, my $.02.

ETA: And isn't it interesting that interesting is apparently the only interesting adjective I know? (In my defense, my phone rang in the middle of my last paragraph, so I didn't proofread the way I normally would, but jeez).

I read them all the time.(Of course, I've been debating hanging up my guns all week, so I haven't used it.) I don't know that my dreams would make sense to anyone who isn't me.

That's very interesting, Epic.

And I adore that quote of Typos as well.

I saw what you did there, Connie. (Although it actually took me a sec. "What interesting thing did I...? Oh. Duh. Heh." I'm a little sleep deprived, kinda slow on the uptake. Must increase caffeine intake.)

Huh, now I think about it, Typo's quote would fit in with some of Knut's Gooseberry Bluff characters/situations. Interesting Thought-provoking.