Someone said about my post yesterday that it was depressing to read how many potentially good stories are not published. It is true that a good magazine gets many, many more submissions than it can use. It even gets many more good submissions than it can use.
Being a writer can be depressing. You start off the year with good hopes, but as sale-less months pass, you feel less like a writer and more like hack.
This is normal, and another reason why you shouldn’t get too hung up about rejections. Although I made a really good sale this month, I sold absolutely nothing after 6 January last year. This is because I raised my own standards, and because I didn’t write as many short stories.
Everyone gets rejections, and the high of a sale usually lasts less long than the dry periods in between.
That’s what i go through without the sales bit :/
By: Sean the Bookonaut on January 27, 2012
at 2:46 am
I didn’t sell anything in 2011 either.
By: pattyjansen on January 27, 2012
at 2:49 am