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Dear Syd

syd

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Syd;

Thank you for your interest in ______ Monthly. Unfortunately your poems and stories are not a good fit for our magazine. Please understand this is our final word on the matter.

Your musings about cummin and drinking too much are all too common. You fail to cover any new ground or even reinvent the classic topics which you seem so partial. In reality there is nothing romantic about destroying yourself and those around you. I don’t mean to sound harsh or cruel, but you should understand that bad writing is a affliction that affects many of us. Furthermore your grammar and spelling are atrocious, making your writing nearly impossible to read. Some writers should stick to their notebooks.

On a personal note I would like to suggest therapy, years of it, rehab, suicide watch and counseling. Give the pen a rest until you have some things sorted out or at least keep your exaggerated glamorizations confined to the journal. I couldn’t sleep at night if I thought your overdone stories might infect someone.

I hope you get the help you need and this letter finds you better off than you seem.

Judy _______
The _______ Monthly
Assistant Editor
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Dear Syd,

I've been logging onto Bluelight for some time now and I had put alot of hours into getting to know the souls of strangers only daring enough to post discretely. Over time, you had become one of my favorite writers because so, so many of your stories hit me so goddamn fucking close to home.

I would like to take a moment and thank you. Your brutal honest that you write about yourself and others inspires me to think that there really are straight-up-this-is-how-it-is personalities that I thought could only be found when I glance in the mirror. There should be more of us around. If the whole world stop kidding themselves and actually took notice to what's going on around them, it'd be a much better place.

Lastly, fuck rehab and therapy. That's so California.

Please keep writing.
iLoveYouWithaKnife
 
iLoveYouWithaKnife said:
Dear Syd,

I've been logging onto Bluelight for some time now and I had put alot of hours into getting to know the souls of strangers only daring enough to post discretely. Over time, you had become one of my favorite writers because so, so many of your stories hit me so goddamn fucking close to home.

I would like to take a moment and thank you. Your brutal honest that you write about yourself and others inspires me to think that there really are straight-up-this-is-how-it-is personalities that I thought could only be found when I glance in the mirror. There should be more of us around. If the whole world stop kidding themselves and actually took notice to what's going on around them, it'd be a much better place.

Lastly, fuck rehab and therapy. That's so California.

Please keep writing.
iLoveYouWithaKnife


d'awwww!!! cute. =D
 
Yeah the ocean one.

A friend of mine has been obsessed for years with getting published in that mag. Her latest rejection letter was particularly brutal. I just reinterpreted it to suit me.
 
was that the true letter, though? I would love to have seen it originally, if you would be kind enough to share. Incidentally, fucking fucked, if that was the letter--but the damn mag is so damn good.

swybs
 
No the original was nothing like that. I may have borrowed a couple of phases, but her letter was much more professional, although a little personal and bitter sounding. I’ll try and get the original form her, but she has probably trashed it.

Agreed, great mag.
 
Dear _______ Monthly,

I piss on you. Please cancel my annual subscription immediately. Enclosed you will find a check for the last month and my urine. Yes, this may have something to do with rejecting Syd & Co.

Konichiwa Bitches,

ROLLerskater954
 
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