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Post by janeVC on Sept 22, 2020 18:16:25 GMT
Mr. Rorschalk,
Thank you! I've enjoyed watching the process unfold for recent stories. I must confess to some confusion. I don't want to apply undo pressure, but I can't tell if my piece has been officially rejected. It would seem so from the critique it recieved, but it hasn't been announced as rejected on the Big Board. I am holding it from other submissions while it's under your consideration, and I don't want jump the gun in sending it elsewhere if, by some stroke of luck, it's still being reviewed.
janeVC
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Post by rorschalk on Sept 22, 2020 18:18:44 GMT
Good day, Ms. VCThank you for the note. It is, indeed, sometimes difficult to interpret the tea leaves in regards to promotion and rejection here at TQR. I will investigate and update you and the Big Board as to the current disposition of your venture.
Hello again, Ms. VC
Due to the hard cutoff between Wk 18 and 19 and Rockefeller's critique of your capital, I missed it before wk 19 was put up n the front page, so I do apologize for missing this happenstance and getting you a quick notification. I assume you've already read the following?
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Hommel's Choosing Week cap made me think of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery. However, where Jackson's classic carries the bricks up onto the roof one at a time and then drops the whole skid on you, Hommel lobs them at you one at a time from the ground with many missing altogether so that, while it has its moments, there are no real surprises, just a few WTFs. Hard to imagine a town where every five years adults vote on which children to drown in buckets and which to keep (was never clear how you drown a 17 year old in a bucket). But then, given the US is about to choose between a senior on the cusp of if not several steps into senility and a pathological narcissist and liar, maybe not that far-fetched. Also, technically, the writing is as good as it gets. If it weren't for the ending, really the plot, I'd almost say yes. No.
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This appeared at the end of wk 18 on the Floor and I've already explained why it went right by me. I do apologize. The quality of your writing is beyond reproach according to Rock's critique, it was the execution of plot that seems to have been the reason for its rejection. Thank for the submission and I look forward to doing business with you in the future.
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Post by janeVC on Sept 22, 2020 18:28:07 GMT
Thank you so much for clarifying. I did, indeed, see and appreciate Rock's response. Thanks for looking into it for me.
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