You are such an accomplished serious writer it's heartbreaking someone doesn't automatically say, oh this person's fiction deserves a place. Do the "expert" readers rejecting your fiction ever read intellectual history or poetry? Not reliably. Does your fiction do the right fiction stuff they are looking for to the right degree? Maybe not but it will have more intellectual depth and precision in language than we see in so much fiction including the writing deemed "brilliant' "cerebral" and so on. Writing in different forms is adventurous. It should mark you as exceptional. I am sorry the publishing world is so befuddled now.
Thanks for this. It’s a flattering and welcome way of thinking about it! But it is true that the literary journals are overwhelmed with submissions these days and can publish like .1% of what they get. I get some very nice rejections. Anyway thanks again.
I love the “brazen refusal of darkness.” And I am reading this in fits and starts (forgive me), but I have a feeling that line will resonate with what I’ve yet to read. (What an idiotic comment — cryptic? abbreviated!)
You are such an accomplished serious writer it's heartbreaking someone doesn't automatically say, oh this person's fiction deserves a place. Do the "expert" readers rejecting your fiction ever read intellectual history or poetry? Not reliably. Does your fiction do the right fiction stuff they are looking for to the right degree? Maybe not but it will have more intellectual depth and precision in language than we see in so much fiction including the writing deemed "brilliant' "cerebral" and so on. Writing in different forms is adventurous. It should mark you as exceptional. I am sorry the publishing world is so befuddled now.
Thanks for this. It’s a flattering and welcome way of thinking about it! But it is true that the literary journals are overwhelmed with submissions these days and can publish like .1% of what they get. I get some very nice rejections. Anyway thanks again.
I love the “brazen refusal of darkness.” And I am reading this in fits and starts (forgive me), but I have a feeling that line will resonate with what I’ve yet to read. (What an idiotic comment — cryptic? abbreviated!)
Thanks. Yes it was the resonating image. Not idiotic, interesting. Thanks again.