Well, once the poem goes in - once they accept it. Then there'll be some glossy interview - and then - my showdown with antichrist Holly Poetry on Radio 3's The Verb. And also Ian Mcewan, Macellan - the 'Yorkshire' poet - he's on my Twitter feed. Him and Trump. Always raging about his train journeys in couplet form. God, he's got the gravy, him and Zeph, and Cooper Clarke, yaaawwwnnn. And jeez that Longfellow 'This is Manchester,' euch bore face DELETE DELETE DELETE.
Well, I didn't get most of what you just wrote but I did notice you said Trump on twitter? I'm pretty sure you don't really, but it would be interesting wouldn't it lol.
Whoa, Wake up. eying the first crack of Dawn, who's been up all night on sixth floor, peddling her porn, human dynamo bent on her sight 's pissed on her door flasher macced man tented with horn only word in his vocab is 'phwoar' priapismically risen this dole day morn See, I can't do JCC as well as he can. That Manc man's got the local je ne sais quois what this Manc here ain't.
Just submitted a story to Apex Magazine, which is not really noteworthy in and of itself, but this is the first time I've submitted to any sort of pro or semi-pro market.
*Rejected by so-and-so* "Oh, well **** you too." - (Not in a malicious way, but more in a 'well your loss' kind of way) *Moves along* Also, I have other hobbies that arrest my interest when I experience a setback. So if you reject me in the writing arena; I'll quickly jump on my keyboard and bang out a song. If I get no responses from that song, I might do a little voice over (having a rather 'radio-like' voice). If nothing comes from that, I'll... I'll... rap. I am quite the talented rapper too. If nothing comes from that, I'll... um, take up something new. I've been meaning to take up abstraction art. So.. whenever my balls swell up, I'll do that.
This just in... a stupid 28-day form rejection from LitMag. I know some people look to this thread for places to submit their own work so I will say this. LitMag is newer but one of the high-paying places (something like $1,000 a story). And I have seen it in the last two bookstores I was in. My arms were already full of books so I didn't pick up a copy. They do have an online component that you can read. Submissions for online are separate. Also, the pay for online is less but still not bad ($250).
Got my first pro-level rejection from Threepenny Review, which is nice that I got that first one out of the way. Anyone interested in swapping a story? I'd like to get some criticism on this piece.
I believe I'm caught up. If I've overlooked anyone, please email me and I will get to it right away. Sorry to all the people it took me a million years to get back to. @Spencer1990 -- Let's talk some details over messages. I'm happy to do another trade with you.
I'm not sure which is worse sometimes the waiting or the rejection. I think when it comes to rejection there is something to having it done quickly like ripping off a bandaid. But, in my experience, acceptances take so long that you almost start to think they forgot about you. I have several submissions in the two hundreds and there are a few others I could hear from any day. It also seems that I do get my hopes up a little on the submissions pushing that year mark or that have just been out way longer than the average response time. It frustrating because everything could easily turn into nothing. On another note, the writing is going super well. I just wrote half a story yesterday and want to finish it today. This is another science fiction story. It's funny because I never really wrote science fiction until recently. It's sort of fun. I know some people don't think you should write for a certain magazine or editor, but I have to disagree with that. I'm writing this story with a certain magazine and editor in mind. This editor wrote me a personal rejection and included what he did like. So, I'm giving him more of that. I'm shifting my focus a bit with this one. I don't think his comments were universal. They were pretty particular to my writing or I would share to help everyone. But when I read his response, I'm like, I can totally do that (in another story). Here's to hoping my new story will hit the nail on the head. @Spencer1990 -- I will try my best to get back to you today. I've read your story once and wanted to think about it and read it again before commenting. I hope that's okay. I usually give stories at least two reads before giving feedback. Your feedback to be came quick and was great. I had been thinking about a change to part of it, and since it was something you mentioned too, I'm going to it. Killing some darlings, I guess. Why is that always so hard? I've got a few places left to try with that one. We'll see... But thank you. If anyone wants to do another trade early next week, I'm game. By then I will have gone over this new one a few times, I hope. I do believe I'm pushing the line on this one. It might be a bit of a risk for an editor, but I truly think I have at least some sense of what this editor would want from me and how to do it. But I am pushing the envelope here.
I'm sure that getting your hopes up is inevitable, not just for this but for many things. I think the problem might be if you didn't. Why not target your writing, it's what people tell you to do when you write for publication isn't it? Study the market? Know your readers? At the moment I'm just too busy to trade stories, re-writing a story DR critiqued for me for one, which seems to be coming along ok.
After a few month, I withdrew a story. This isn't something I've done before, and I still don't think it's a good idea in general. I like to have my stories each on submission a few places. And one of my best stories has been out a really long time at a few places. I saw on duotrope that the place I withdrew from was responding to submissions sent around the same place as mine. The place I withdrew from in a non-paying market, though, I would like to publish with them in the future. However, this story has been out almost a year at two other places and a long time at two more. All of them pay and have more prestige than the place I withdrew from. I thought it was probably worth waiting a bit longer to see how these turn out.
A 64-day personal rejection from One Story. To be honest I'm pretty sure this is just a higher-tier form. It could be a bit of a combination of the two. Still a rejection. That's okay. The story they rejected hasn't been submitted all that much. I think it might be a good one or really suck. Sometimes it's just so hard to tell.
Yes, damned self-publishers on the thread. Assault is relentless. ... YLR didn't want my poem, fugging yuppies...
I'm sure it was a nice poem, although I'm not a poem reader as a whole. What's this about the self-publishers on the thread?
It's not really a poem. It's a dense monologue in character that I can't find a way to frame, to communicate. ... that poor chap with his 'mistaken' post. I was being silly. Currently on 7000th draft of my sci-fi rubbish [one] - need to re-post the poem, somewhere onwards. Not much out at the moment. Maybe I'm best in silence, really? Hi to you @Krispee
I honestly didn't know what to make of the mistaken post, seems weird. Never written a monologue, must be hard to place that. I do however like silences from time to time. Plus you usually write more in silence. And hi back to you @matwoolf
