>>Thank you for sending this short piece our way. This one didn't quite feel like a match for us, so we're going to pass this time, but we enjoyed the read. There's a real romanticism in the idea of being a ringer, and that comes across in your writing.
>>Best of luck with this, Hours and hours of work summed up in a few lines. I'm glad. I'm more driven to learn how to write well than ever. I even think I have a few good ideas.
What drives you? I don't think rejection is enough to sustain my urges to tell a story, so maybe I'm looking to understand myself through understanding others.
Better than being blacklisted. I actually had an offer for 90k and I called the guy a faggot.
Hunter Diaz
:)
Tyler Collins
>You write well and the ideas you are working with are interesting but we think you needed to flesh them out more to satisfy those questions feels good man
Parker Long
Simply eric
Nicholas Lee
That's beautifully written. Please write them back and tell them user admired their curtesy.
on topic: Nothing. I'm a lazy piece of shrut
hella friggin epic
Angel Bell
It kind of is. I certainly wasn't bummed or angry with it. I just have an overly active imagination and was plagued with fantasies of being published. Even if on an online literary journal.
Andrew Perry
wtf is a ringer
Adam Edwards
what is a ringer
Austin Reyes
Someone who works on cattle stations in australia. Think cowboy.
Basically run around after crazy wild bulls and hope to tip them over and tie them up before they skull fuck me with a big black horn.
Brandon Price
What did you submit to? Meanjin?
Jonathan Bailey
Jellyfish. I have a thing for jellyfish so it seemed natural.
Aaron Morales
Post it here. We'll tell you what the editors were too polite to say.
Oliver Long
Watch the first thirty seconds. Mute it. They're pretty tame cattle, but yeah. The rest of the video might get more interesting.
It reads like a letters to the editor piece. It is very matter of fact. Was this meant to be a non-fiction piece?
It seems more like a character outline than a story.
There is a romantisicm in there, but you don't show anything.
Have you tried writing a day out in detail? A day when something interesting happens, although the life seems interesting anyway.
In otherwords I think your story is missing a story. It is a charqcter talking to a therapist of sorts, but not telling them the truth.
Gabriel Roberts
It's so fucked up when you know it's an automated rejection. The fact that they didn't even care to reject me with a human voice is incredibly demeaning. >Thank you so much for submitting to the North Texas Review. We have read many great pieces, including "The Cloud of Unknowing."
>You do a great job of incorporating other disciplines into your writing in an effortless and intriguing way, and your writing style is admirable.
>While your story does not suit our needs at this time, I hope that you will continue to submit to NTR in the future.
All the best,
Nicholas Gray
>submit to NTR never
Colton Gonzalez
next time write as a oppressed muslim gay youth, sure way to get published
Jaxson Collins
Very good! If it is non-fiction, you should take your intimate knowledge and use it to create a compelling short story. Seems ripe for material. Well done.
David Rodriguez
What's wrong with NTR
Christopher Bell
thanks for sharing that dude, it's a great read. i love learning about a life spent doing rare deeds. a technical question i had as i was reading: you mention bashing a calf's head in via blunt force, and i wondered whether it would be easier for you and the calf if you learned how to slit their throats for those times when it's required.
Ayden Hughes
He got rejected by them
Ryder Reed
Cheers, that's quite helpful really. I'll have a look through it again after work.
It's non-fiction mostly, although it's a blending my own experiences with others.
I generally shove a pig sticker between the vertebrae just down from the skull. Do it right and it paralyzes and kills them pretty much immediately. But sometimes all you have is a rock. or a tree root.
Noah Turner
NTR is japanese for cuckoldry
Gabriel Hall
all of the people on this board who ignorantly throw themselves at publishers and waste hours every day writing drivel, fiction of all things, for validation deserve every single rejection letter. its dead, you will never ressurect the arts. write a screenplay if you want money otherwise fuck off
>what many people call “hipsterism” or, what they perceive as a slavish devotion to irony, are often in fact just forms of extreme, radical sincerity. This is what hipsters really believe.
