nightBlue

It's interesting you mention this period of "unknowing." I agree that it is uncomfortable, that I, too, am constantly thinking about it and checking emails and forums and so on. But when I really reflect on it, this uncertainty, this unknowing -- isn't this feeling not much different than sitting down to write? I mean, I don't know about y'all, but when I look at the blank page I don't have this premeditated plot, this story all worked out in my head, this perfect plan to execute. No, instead, ten times out of nine I have to grope into the uncertainty, you know, like Saramago's Blindness, this bright light leaving me eyeless, but I know how to put one foot in front of the other and use my hands, so I go on. Okay, maybe I'm taking this too far -- we're talking about applications, there is a firm acceptance/rejection, we want to know our futures' direction, that's a different kind of uneasiness, so on -- but I guess what I'm saying is, the discomfort, the uncertainty -- there's something there to expand on, to live with, because, MFA or not, we have to face it as writers.

I also got rejected from '24 Draft this morning. I was wondering if acceptances have gone out for fiction for the following: Rutgers Vandy Boston Brown Syracuse UNC Greensboro Would love to get into Draft soon and see the spreadsheet. I saw on here that Johns Hopkins sent out acceptances and waitlists (for fiction and poetry), as did USF. So that would make two rejections for me.