tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19630688.post8072004040435087458..comments2023-11-12T14:12:54.120+00:00Comments on the rain in my purse: friday confession: what an idiotSarahJanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497062670296130228noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19630688.post-85132322628925403092007-08-18T00:11:00.000+00:002007-08-18T00:11:00.000+00:00it is funny, but i can see how it would make me wa...it is funny, but i can see how it would make me want to hide under a blanket and, um, at least pretend to be dead for about half a year. ;)<BR/><BR/>but it happens, doesn't it? i have to be sooo careful when i send out several subs in one day, i always check a million times and then wonder why it takes me 6 hours to submit to three journals. :)<BR/><BR/>tralala. *g*<BR/><BR/>mmichihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06477831910779342533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19630688.post-41769915131745522102007-08-15T01:38:00.000+00:002007-08-15T01:38:00.000+00:00Me to. But it did make me take care sending out wh...Me to. But it did make me take care sending out whole batches of poems, and it made me promise myself I'd be kinder about other people's mistakes. Even his.<BR/><BR/>As for yours, forgive yourself, laugh and move on. The poems in question will surely find a home, if not there then somewhere better.Lesliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11163920808413285914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19630688.post-26570166449594022252007-08-14T16:44:00.000+00:002007-08-14T16:44:00.000+00:00That is snarky. I hope he made some atrocious erro...That is snarky. I hope he made some atrocious error of his own soon after. hee.SarahJanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02497062670296130228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19630688.post-13106987845988542802007-08-14T11:46:00.000+00:002007-08-14T11:46:00.000+00:00I once did the copy/paste thing and forgot to chan...I once did the copy/paste thing and forgot to change the name of the journal in the concluding paragraph. I got everything else right, but in the end said that I hoped the editor found these poems suitable for someone else's journal.<BR/><BR/>He sent a very snarky letter back saying he was quite taken with the poems but wasn't sure, in the end, that I'd meant to send them to his journal so he was rejecting them. <BR/>arggggg.<BR/>I laugh now, but it made me craaaazy then.Lesliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11163920808413285914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19630688.post-44399459865486332862007-08-13T08:15:00.000+00:002007-08-13T08:15:00.000+00:00Hee! not to make this worse than it is - the lette...Hee! not to make this worse than it is - the letter didn't actually say "Tralala," though that would be an interesting name for a poem, nor did it say A, B and C. I used the real names of journals.... where I really have been published, I might add... though this could be the beginning of a brilliant career in lyingSarahJanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02497062670296130228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19630688.post-61115099093706356262007-08-13T01:39:00.000+00:002007-08-13T01:39:00.000+00:00Maybe they won't remember they didn't publish "Tra...Maybe they won't remember they didn't publish "Tralala" and will think A, B and C are real magazines.Valerie Lovelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11309299429765944601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19630688.post-88293507435436053272007-08-12T18:20:00.000+00:002007-08-12T18:20:00.000+00:00yes, it is kind of funny, unless you're me. i have...yes, it is kind of funny, <BR/>unless you're me. <BR/>i have now drawn even more stupid attention to myself by apologizing... <BR/>I have now learned my lesson and will now be setting each cover letter together individually in typeface on a printer's block in the cellar.<BR/>sarah, forgiving herselfSarahJanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02497062670296130228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19630688.post-85207536478373311472007-08-12T13:55:00.000+00:002007-08-12T13:55:00.000+00:00Sarah, I don't mean to laugh, but that is just dam...Sarah, I don't mean to laugh, but that is just damn funny. You might as well send them an email and make a big joke out of it. At least, that's what I would do, but I seem to care much less than most. <BR/><BR/>=PRachel Mallinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11943379186202447410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19630688.post-28397311355198967202007-08-12T08:15:00.000+00:002007-08-12T08:15:00.000+00:00You've got a pretty good chance, though, that even...You've got a pretty good chance, though, that even they didn't notice that... smileSarahJanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02497062670296130228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19630688.post-60272757606672443372007-08-11T12:22:00.000+00:002007-08-11T12:22:00.000+00:00I sent poems to Southwest Review once with the cov...I sent poems to Southwest Review once with the cover letter addressed to Southern Review. Ouch. <BR/><BR/>But as C. Dale has pointed out a couple of times, that's nothing on what he sometimes sees!Andrew Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19630688.post-76524991003425533302007-08-11T10:27:00.000+00:002007-08-11T10:27:00.000+00:00something beyond crazy that I'm trying to pinpoint...something beyond crazy that I'm trying to pinpoint.SarahJanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02497062670296130228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19630688.post-50139049405714277862007-08-11T08:19:00.000+00:002007-08-11T08:19:00.000+00:00oh no! Stuff like that just makes you crazy, doesn...oh no! Stuff like that just makes you crazy, doesn't it?Charlene D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01084413227549551751noreply@blogger.com