Are you people HAPPY, now?
:finger hovering over Enter key: Ah, fuck it. It's not like they can do anything worse to me than say "No, we don't want that one."
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— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) December 1, 2016
This really is not as easy as it looks, you know. That poor bastard of a short story is now going to spend probably the next two years being submitted hither and yon, and then probably expire of old age in a digital file somewhere. And it’s gonna break my heart two, three times in the process. I totally understand why so many people freeze up at this point…
Every published writer has gone through this ..
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Many un-published writers have too.
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All writers who never got passed it .. are un-published.
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Best of luck to you and your short story!
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Mew
Some of us have even gone from unpublished to rarely published, and even dream of one day reaching the exalted state of occasionally published.
Rejection slips with less than a sentence of criticism are par for the course.
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They suck. But if you want to get past it, you gotta go through it.
I submit something, it gets rejected…a few years later, I try again. It’s probably not the most efficient path to publication.