The founding principle of the Journal of Universal Rejection is rejection. All submissions, regardless of quality, will be rejected. Tweets by Caleb Emmons.
“What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.”
― Thomas Wolfe
In chess they now use "centipawn loss" to judge a GM's move (how much worse it is than the best move found by a chess engine).
Who will calculate "centiheart loss" for each line of a poem?
HOT TAKE: All points of view and tenses are useless and awful. Let the pages be blank as we fall deeper into our own despair, waiting for what will never come.