You had a really good idea for an episode.

I did.

Yeah.

It wasn't really my idea.

My friend Udi, who is a writer, he just texted me this rejection letter he got.

And it's a very good rejection letter.

And I thought, we've never done an episode about rejection letters.

And I have stories, and I think this is fascinating. He said we can just read. Yeah, he said we could just read. You want me to read his rejection letter? Where's it from? It's from DreamForge. Okay. Editor there is Scott Nol. It says, thank you for submitting to DreamForge. we cannot include your piece in upcoming issues, but this is true of most submissions.

We enjoy many of the stories we return. Building an issue is a bit of art, requiring a balance of elements like word length, theme, tone, and characters. Even great stories may not fit our current needs. Udi, while not one of our selections, we enjoyed reading your story.

Good writing.

I appreciated the age-appropriate character voices that matured over time.

Excellent character development and emotional depth.

You showed strong world-building, natural dialogue, and smooth exposition.

The use of the rose motif was effective.

You can tell why he was cool with me reading this online because it's incredibly praiseworthy. We just had more good stories this

time than we could ever buy and we had to make some difficult choices in our final selections.

Keep this one in circulation and best of luck finding it a home.

Well, that's a really... Yeah, that's a really upbeat rejection letter.

I will say that I did not get any of those. I got nothing like that. The closest I got,

we'll talk about them, but why don't we talk about this rejection? If you're getting rejections

like this, number one, gold star to that

magazine, right? Yeah. I mean, that's really useful to send, not just because as soon as it said his name,

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