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All posts tagged
rejections
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August 10, 2010An Objective Look at My Seven Graduate School Rejections Compared to Other Historic Rejections
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May 27, 2010A Campus Tour for Rejected Applicants
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May 13, 2010The Rejection of Anne Frank
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October 22, 2009Seven Rejected Improv Troupe Scenarios
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May 6, 2009My Pitches for Political-Satire Skits Playing on President Obama’s Foibles Keep Getting Shot Down
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March 13, 2009Marvel Comics Backs Out of My Publishing Contract
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January 24, 2008Rejected Introductions to Days of Our Lives
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February 8, 2007Band Names Rejected by the Smashing Pumpkins
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February 8, 2007Opening Sentences to A Tale of Two Cities Rejected by Dickens Before He Settled on “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …”
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December 8, 2006Rejected Submissions for Seventeen Magazine’s “Daily Traumarama”
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