If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
July 24th 2008 07:34
I have no idea who said that first. Nor do I really care. It makes the point I'm trying to get across, and that is the important thing.
Last year I wrote a story, had it critiqued, and edited it a fair bit-almost rewriting it completely. I sent it to seven markets and was rejected by all of them. For a while, I didn't submit it anywhere, because I didn't have any good markets to submit it to.
Well I'm glad to say that once again Good Bye is making the rounds. I sent it off to its first destination today, an ezine for writers to be found here:
Really Long Link
The link leads to the submission guidelines. Now all I can do is sit tight for the 4-5 week period, cross my fingers, and wait. This venue does accept simultaneous submissions, but I personally don't like the idea of them. I'd rather send it out to various people one by one, giving it a read through and a brief edit between send outs.
For example, with Moonshadow's Guardian. If I get a rejection for it-and while I have hope, I do believe that nothing is less certain than an acceptance-I will run through it again. I will spend a couple days reading through it and rewriting scenes that I don't like, making sure everything is just perfect, and then preparing to send it elsewhere.
Because as a writer, you are doomed to experience some sort of failure, at some point in time-whether it be a rejection for your short story, your poem, or your novel, or even your first book into print falling flat on its face. All writers are doomed to someday hear that their story isn't wanted.
It takes strength to just deal with that and turn around and send it to other places, but that's a strength that writers need. So if at first, you don't succeed, try, try again.
After all, it took JK Rowling over thirty tries...
Last year I wrote a story, had it critiqued, and edited it a fair bit-almost rewriting it completely. I sent it to seven markets and was rejected by all of them. For a while, I didn't submit it anywhere, because I didn't have any good markets to submit it to.
Well I'm glad to say that once again Good Bye is making the rounds. I sent it off to its first destination today, an ezine for writers to be found here:
Really Long Link
The link leads to the submission guidelines. Now all I can do is sit tight for the 4-5 week period, cross my fingers, and wait. This venue does accept simultaneous submissions, but I personally don't like the idea of them. I'd rather send it out to various people one by one, giving it a read through and a brief edit between send outs.
For example, with Moonshadow's Guardian. If I get a rejection for it-and while I have hope, I do believe that nothing is less certain than an acceptance-I will run through it again. I will spend a couple days reading through it and rewriting scenes that I don't like, making sure everything is just perfect, and then preparing to send it elsewhere.
Because as a writer, you are doomed to experience some sort of failure, at some point in time-whether it be a rejection for your short story, your poem, or your novel, or even your first book into print falling flat on its face. All writers are doomed to someday hear that their story isn't wanted.
It takes strength to just deal with that and turn around and send it to other places, but that's a strength that writers need. So if at first, you don't succeed, try, try again.
After all, it took JK Rowling over thirty tries...
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Comment by TimmyH
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Comment by Dianna G
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But you can also experience success, if you move on from the failure.
~Dianna
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I think I'm also one of the "Dare to fail" person...lol
Comment by Dianna G
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Exactly. You have to be able to put up with the rejections and have a thick skin.
You also have to be willing to dare to fail. I completely agree.
~Dianna