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Two posts in a day, whut?
I've officially crossed over to the dark side. Whether or not the dark side wants anything to do with me is another question, but I did it. I've joined the ranks of fic writers trying to submit an original story for publication. Oh shut up, it's an epic moment of facepalm over here.
I feel like that cliche metaphor, in which you climb a mountain and realize that there is a bigger one in front of you. I believe I've done a pretty solid job in fic writing, put out stuff I can be proud of. Now I'm looking at this whole new world of published works, and it's scary out there. The magazine I sent the story to has less than 1% acceptance rate, so I'm not really holding my breath, but not submitting anything gives me 0% chance, so there is that. I haven't shown it to anyone, even though a couple of kind people offered, because I needed all the courage I've scrounged up so far to send it and to continue sending it to places after this one bounces it. Yiiiiikes. Seems that the smart thing to do would be to continue writing stories of various lengths and subject matters, to have more stuff to submit until somebody wants something. That sounds like a plan. I'm a little bummed out because writing in isolation is not nearly as much fun as in fandom.
Well, the conclusion is, thank god for medicine. I shudder to imagine trying to make money with this. Gonna go study now, so that I could succeed in the more sensible area of life.
I've officially crossed over to the dark side. Whether or not the dark side wants anything to do with me is another question, but I did it. I've joined the ranks of fic writers trying to submit an original story for publication. Oh shut up, it's an epic moment of facepalm over here.
I feel like that cliche metaphor, in which you climb a mountain and realize that there is a bigger one in front of you. I believe I've done a pretty solid job in fic writing, put out stuff I can be proud of. Now I'm looking at this whole new world of published works, and it's scary out there. The magazine I sent the story to has less than 1% acceptance rate, so I'm not really holding my breath, but not submitting anything gives me 0% chance, so there is that. I haven't shown it to anyone, even though a couple of kind people offered, because I needed all the courage I've scrounged up so far to send it and to continue sending it to places after this one bounces it. Yiiiiikes. Seems that the smart thing to do would be to continue writing stories of various lengths and subject matters, to have more stuff to submit until somebody wants something. That sounds like a plan. I'm a little bummed out because writing in isolation is not nearly as much fun as in fandom.
Well, the conclusion is, thank god for medicine. I shudder to imagine trying to make money with this. Gonna go study now, so that I could succeed in the more sensible area of life.