A poem to honour reaching forty writing rejections this year. Rejection quotations Thank you for your submission. On this occasion your story hasn't made it. I'm sorry to disappoint you. It’s just a competition. I have read and thought about the poems you sent me, but I'm not keeping them. I'm sorry to report we … Continue reading Rejection quotations
Rejection
Out of the loop
A little writing update featuring a new kind of rejection
Momentum 21
It seems publishing things have kept up the momentum of 2020. Yes, there have been the expected rejections, but there was a long awaited publication. Also, new things are going on. New as in my first acceptance for 2021! Voila, the 2021 stats: Acceptance: 1Rejections: 9Pending: 15 This new acceptance is a short story that … Continue reading Momentum 21
New year, same goal
2021 writing goals
The way it is
You know how it is, no sooner than you update the writing situation, and bid a fond adieu to September and bam, October announces itself with a story acceptance. A few posts ago I wrote about two short stories I was having a bit of a time placing in publications. This is because these two … Continue reading The way it is
A big day
The boring days are ones without writing news. When I keep hitting the refresh on various online submission platforms, and my emails and...nuthin', nada, non. These no-news days pile up. A month or two or more can pass without a response. But the writing and the work of submitting and scouting publications continues. Tallying the … Continue reading A big day
Any way the wind blows
Another day, another rejection. These are the days it never rains but it pours. There are a few journals I would like to be published in within Australia and yet again it's another one gone. There was a time yet another rejection in such a dire point in my life would have floored me. But I'm clear-eyed, … Continue reading Any way the wind blows
Lessons from rejection
Where I have the most experience as a creative writer is in the submission rejection process. No, no need to get all sympathetic and tut tut. It's true and it maybe true for a while yet, for a myriad of reasons. On the bright side it indicates I'm still sending stuff out there. And that's … Continue reading Lessons from rejection
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain
When I have doubts about what I'm doing, which can happen, say after a bad submission rejection (there are good and bad ones) I stand alone on the shore of the wide world, like Keats once did, and think about chucking it in, in much the same way he didn't. Maybe I could get an easier … Continue reading Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain
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