"That cat cannot come in this house"

[pjthompson]

So that's why we went down to Home Depot today to get a more solid, more kitty escape proof door to use in the entrance hall doorway leading into my section of the house. And why I'm cleanuing up and clearing a space for a cat box, and buying new window shades that actually lower and raise so the cat that's not coming into the house can sit in the window and look out. And that's why Min the Mercilessly Cute is looking smug.

In other news, like everyone else I got the rejectogram from FSF yesterday. It didn't grab JJA (no surprise there) but he did add, "There's some nice writing here." Haven't gotten that one before, and I'll take my paltry egoboo where I can get it.

That is all. Must return to my house bustle. And I'm very grateful to the roommate for allowing this compromise.

Comments

[handworn.livejournal.com]

What do these rejectograms look like?

[pjthompson]

Oh, it's just a letter from the slushpile reader from Fantasy and Science Fiction, but FSF always does a personal letter (not form) and they have a sort of...embedded code the writers have come to recognize over the years. "Didn't grab" is taken to me that the reader couldn't get into the story, "didn't hold" is taken to mean they lost interest in the story, and "doesn't work" is taken to mean that they read the whole thing, but the story just didn't, well, work. And if you get past John Joseph Adams, the reader, and Gordon (the publisher) sends you a rejection letter, it means JJA thought it good enough to send up the chain of command.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

Nice that they do a personal letter, anyway. It suggests to me that they sympathize with writers.

[pjthompson]

Yeah, it's pretty classy.