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alylentz's review
5.0
Damn, this book was jam-packed to read, both as a writer and as someone who reads/curates written submissions. It really drove home the value of honest feedback, and made me think we are often trying too hard to be nice/succinct/polished in ours. Receiving one of these letters would have been so insanely valuable! It's packed with really good writing advice and even a kernel of a story idea every now and then, but more than anything it really encourages you to write things that only YOU can write: weird stuff, dense stuff, experimental stuff. Reading them all like this also just sort of reassuring that more often than not you're not rejected from these places because you're a bad writer but more because you didn't develop something enough, you didn't commit fully, you were trying too hard to hold back or be normal, or even simply that you're just not writing about something the particular editor(s) find interesting. Definitely made me want to browse through the Eyeshot archives and see what did get accepted. I'd recommend this to any aspiring writers for sure.
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