(There are, of course, exceptions to this: when I absolutely know the writer well enough to know that (s)he likes more personal rejections. But they’re rare.)

(There are, of course, exceptions to this: when I absolutely know the writer well enough to know that (s)he likes more personal rejections. But they’re rare.)

But I agree Roxane is awesome — a wonderful editor and she’s doing so much to contribute to the broader online lit community/communities.

I also really like her stories, esp the ones in decomp and You Must be this Tall to Ride.

But I agree Roxane is awesome — a wonderful editor and she’s doing so much to contribute to the broader online lit community/communities.

I also really like her stories, esp the ones in decomp and You Must be this Tall to Ride.

An editor once praised but still rejected a piece because he didn’t think I wrote convincingly as a woman.

The story’s narrator was male.

So I added a sentence early in the piece to clarify gender and the story was later accepted by Wigleaf.

It was actually an important learning experience — I realized that the whole “readers will assume your character is the same gender as you until you tell them otherwise” line does not apply when your narrator begins the piece fantasizing about getting fucked by a dude.

The pitfalls of writing as a Queer and not always realizing what unconscious assumptions most of the rest of the world brings to the table. …Can be like a kind of reverse naivete.

An editor once praised but still rejected a piece because he didn’t think I wrote convincingly as a woman.

The story’s narrator was male.

So I added a sentence early in the piece to clarify gender and the story was later accepted by Wigleaf.

It was actually an important learning experience — I realized that the whole “readers will assume your character is the same gender as you until you tell them otherwise” line does not apply when your narrator begins the piece fantasizing about getting fucked by a dude.

The pitfalls of writing as a Queer and not always realizing what unconscious assumptions most of the rest of the world brings to the table. …Can be like a kind of reverse naivete.