rejection letters

I reread my rejection letters since 2000 this week, just for kicks. No, really it was to help 14 see how often people get rejected on the way to success. What surprised me on this end was how many of the rejection letters were personalized. Somehow, in my memory, almost all of my rejection letters were form letters, with a few personalized letters peppering the bunch. And the personalized letters felt so painful then, telling me either that they liked the manuscript, but it "didn't fit th...