Writer's Fallout Shelter

Oh yes, I'm a stubborn writer when it comes to critiques from others that I know shouldn't be changed. And I usually IM or find some way to talk to the person as I'm reading over their comments/corrections. However, I'm good at taking constructive criticism. The person in question was a managing editor friend from another campus's literary magazine. She admitted that I was a better writer than she, but she's the one who helped me with the poem in question (the mediocre one). Would that, perhaps, have done it?

I want to get into a higher program (Pitt, Emerson, etc) but coming from a small school where my work ethic only kicked in within the past two years, I would probably need to get published to get any attention. I don't want to go to grad school from somewhere no one's heard of.

And amusingly, I actually do that when I read. "How am I any different? If they can get this published, then my stuff should be accepted. Oh, that's a good style, maybe I should try something like that." Things like that. That's why I consider reading and writing one-and-the-same when you're a writer by profession, cause you never stop learning no matter what you're doing.