Feeling particularly boisterous? Feeling confident or otherwise good about yourself? Beware. You’re on a track to serious letdown. Let us help you.

Go to the Rejection Generator Project and send yourself the letter called “Up in Flames.” This scorching missive was fed into the Rejection Generator by our first guest editor. It was so mean-spirited and devoid of any inkling of human sympathy that it came out of the machine almost unaltered. It’ll burn the positivity out of your heart.

This week’s guest editor is an editor of young adult fiction, but has chosen to remain anonymous in order to be able to pounce without warning in the future.

If you think you could be a guest editor and would like to feed a rejection into The Generator, send us a note: editors@stoneslidecorrective.com. We want to encourage rejection in all its forms. We seek to democratize the art of no.