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“Suicide Squeeze: an existential crisis at third base”

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Hopalong:
Keep writing for the joy of it and submit all you like!
Release the outcome and you'll be fine.

GOOD for you for taking the risk.

Hops

Dr. Richard Grossman:
Thanks, Lighter and Hops!

I appreciate the encouragement and well wishes!

Richard

P.S.  I probably should have added that the director of the Boston Theater Marathon, Kate Snodgrass, also handwrote an encouraging note (which I also appreciated) on the "rejection" letter:  "Very nice writing, Richard."

lighter:
Did the comment feel like a comforting pat on the head, or something else?

Lighter

Dr. Richard Grossman:
Hi lighter,

I'm glad she wrote--but because the comment was so non-specific, it's hard to know how significant it was or even what she meant.  But over 400 plays are submitted each year, and Kate can't cater to the needs of every disappointed author.  I'm very much appreciative of all the work she, her colleagues, and her staff at Boston University do to put on such an event.  Because Hildy (my wife) organizes two big events for Upstage Lung Cancer each year, I have an inkling what it's like (I'm always listed in the program as "patient husband"  :wink:  ).

Richard

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