Mr. Antman's ruby realization looks more like rationalization. The whipped dog, finally in the proper posture to be published, informing the rest of us how to tuck our tails.
The faults always been his (ours), right? Publishers are such perfect beings.
And it works in his 'literary' world I suppose. But in any other world, one starves first.
Eventually, normal people have to face facts. Just before your 62nd birthday, I think, as you confront failure after failure after failure to get through, you lose the ability to call yourself passionately persistent and acquire the patina of what smock clad doctors call 'a delusional nutjob.'
Before that happens, it's best to have found something to do that doesn't require having to deal with people so lazy and arrogant they take years to accomplish what normal people manage to do in weeks. Patience is a virtue, but not when dealing with anyone ignorant enough to consider your time on the planet worthless. Turns out that's most any publisher who thinks a two year communication backlog is acceptable. Those people can rot in hell and I refuse to be 'ashamed' of the feelings I hold for them.
Yes, that's not the way to ever get published. I know. I don't buy their books either. Turns out, I don't miss 'em a bit.
"Passionate persistence"
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Mr. Antman's ruby realization looks more like rationalization. The whipped dog, finally in the proper posture to be published, informing the rest of us how to tuck our tails.
The faults always been his (ours), right? Publishers are such perfect beings.
And it works in his 'literary' world I suppose. But in any other world, one starves first.
Eventually, normal people have to face facts. Just before your 62nd birthday, I think, as you confront failure after failure after failure to get through, you lose the ability to call yourself passionately persistent and acquire the patina of what smock clad doctors call 'a delusional nutjob.'
Before that happens, it's best to have found something to do that doesn't require having to deal with people so lazy and arrogant they take years to accomplish what normal people manage to do in weeks. Patience is a virtue, but not when dealing with anyone ignorant enough to consider your time on the planet worthless. Turns out that's most any publisher who thinks a two year communication backlog is acceptable. Those people can rot in hell and I refuse to be 'ashamed' of the feelings I hold for them.
Yes, that's not the way to ever get published. I know. I don't buy their books either. Turns out, I don't miss 'em a bit.
-blue