Another First!
May. 18th, 2009 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuMy first short story rejection.* I submitted it electronically yesterday afternoon or evening--and had a rejection email in my in-box this morning. The site says they manage most responses with 36 hours, but this was even faster. Undeterred, I found another market (via the Duotrope market search engine, courtesy of Kami Miller's helpful pointer) and submitted it again (again, electronically).
*Okay, not truly my first. Today I found a spreadsheet in which I was tracking story submissions way back in 1997, during my first brief flirtation with writing for publication. That was only a flirtation; this, however, is the real thing. I have goals. I have a plan. I have a process. If I follow it long enough I will succeed. So it's the first of what will probably be many more rejections before I start selling.
Words Written Today: 1,250
Words Written YTD (since May 1): 13,981
Streak (500+ words/day): 8 Days
Stories in Circulation: 4
Stories Rejected: 1
Stories Accepted: 0 (no responses of any kind as yet)
*Okay, not truly my first. Today I found a spreadsheet in which I was tracking story submissions way back in 1997, during my first brief flirtation with writing for publication. That was only a flirtation; this, however, is the real thing. I have goals. I have a plan. I have a process. If I follow it long enough I will succeed. So it's the first of what will probably be many more rejections before I start selling.
Words Written Today: 1,250
Words Written YTD (since May 1): 13,981
Streak (500+ words/day): 8 Days
Stories in Circulation: 4
Stories Rejected: 1
Stories Accepted: 0 (no responses of any kind as yet)
