A few years ago, I decided to make my own rejection postcard, which had boxes for editors to check off when they were going to send me a rejection. It was more of a tool for me, but I could see the benefit for editors as well.
All editors needed to do was check off the reason for the rejection. I also had a space for comments. When I told other writers about my postcard a lot of them were super negative about it. They said that editors wouldn’t take the time to fill it out or that they’d probably just pitch it. Regardless of what they thought, I did it anyway.
Today as I was checking the mail and I came across one of my postcards! It was a rejection, but still, I was excited. It worked.
This was written many years ago. Today, all submissions are online and I’ve gotten rid of the postcards, but I still stand by doing things differently than others even if they don’t understand it.
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