If you’re not getting rejected, you’re not putting yourself out there enough. Here’s how to handle rejection like a grown up.
literary journals
They Accepted My Story and I Missed It
(A Cautionary Tale)
I found an email in my junk folder from MARCH saying they loved my short story and want to publish it. They accepted my story and I missed it.
Aiming for 100 Rejections in 2017
Up until last night, I was planning to write a post about how discouraged I am with literary journals and the number of times my short stories have been rejected. […]
Submit Your Stories to the Right Journals
In a previous post, I shared my free, downloadable spreadsheet for keeping track of where you submit your short stories. But when you download it, you will find yourself looking at a […]
Submission Window Opens Today for Top-Tier Journals
If you follow along, you know I’m pretty methodical about how I submit my short stories to journals. (If you haven’t been following along, check out this post to get […]
My Updated Submission Spreadsheet
A few months back I shared a submission spreadsheet that I created in Google docs to track when and where I submit my short stories. If you missed that post, […]
How to Write a Good Rejection, Says Me
I’ve been writing fiction for a number of years now, and I’ve sent a fair number of stories off to literary journals. Most, but not all, of those submissions have […]