just to keep my ego in check...
I just had the fastest rejection of my career.
Digging through the laptop, I found a couple of utterly silly super-short horror pieces. They were serviceable, though not incredible. So I fired them off. One, "Bargaining With Spiders," I sent to a low-pay webzine at 10:37 p.m.
Response came at 8:58 a.m.
"Thanks for submitting this, but unfortunately I'm going to pass. Thanks again."
Wow, I've got whiplash. Hey, the story isn't any great shakes. But it's a good reminder that despite what some dear, sweet readers said, I can't get my laundry list published quite yet. Not that the spider piece is my laundry list, I actually rather like it. But then I never did have much luck with magazines.
Putting my ego back in the Sucrets box...
Digging through the laptop, I found a couple of utterly silly super-short horror pieces. They were serviceable, though not incredible. So I fired them off. One, "Bargaining With Spiders," I sent to a low-pay webzine at 10:37 p.m.
Response came at 8:58 a.m.
"Thanks for submitting this, but unfortunately I'm going to pass. Thanks again."
Wow, I've got whiplash. Hey, the story isn't any great shakes. But it's a good reminder that despite what some dear, sweet readers said, I can't get my laundry list published quite yet. Not that the spider piece is my laundry list, I actually rather like it. But then I never did have much luck with magazines.
Putting my ego back in the Sucrets box...
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