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Submission #2

Just keeping ya’ll up to date. This one went to McSweeney’s, which is somehow even less likely to go through than the one to Clarkesworld. But I don’t care. The piece is perfect for them, and it’s good enough. And when it gets rejected, I’ll send it to someone else.

Did I mention 2010 was gonna be my year?


This was written by shanusmagnus. Posted on Saturday, February 20, 2010, at 9:41 am. Filed under cat-blog, writing. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.
  • What is this, the first-ever cliffhanger LSH comment?

    The thing is, it's not negative motivation. It's not 'negative' at all unless you think pointing out that you're not going to win the lottery is negative. In fact, I think my way of thinking is pretty optimistic, all in all; it's just an optimism based in reality: if you submit to places with < 1% acceptance rates, then yes, chances are great that you're gonna get rejected. If you understand that, keep it in mind, and try anyway, then that's pretty damn good.

    Or put another way: even mentioning the subs at all, without also mentioning the reality of the situation, would seem phony to me. If the prickly spikes are part of the fruit you can't pretend not to see them. Not without hurting your fingers. At least, that's how I function.
  • Could you cut it out with the rejection talk? I get that you've using negative motivation here, but really. No need to take a happy thing and wrap it up in prickly spikes. :) And, yes, I got some kind of notice about
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