Two questions: writing communities, and literary journal submissions
Dear friends:
I have two questions.
1.) What is a good community of creative writers on LJ? I interest-searched "writing," and "writers," and what this revealed is that there are literally hundreds of on LJ. writers' communities. A brief look through the ones that seemed most apropos, and had been most recently updated, revealed a range of literacy and coherence (and illiteracy and incoherence) that left me feeling just bewildered. So: I would love to get recommendations from actual human beings: you, whom I know.
2.) The immediate reason I was looking for a writers' community is that I have a question about submitting fiction to a literary journal. The question goes like this:If you submitted a piece of fiction to a competition held by a literary magazine that you like, and your submission didn't win or place, then -- assuming you like the literary journal -- does it make any sense to try sending the piece in again, as a regular submission?
Or would that make no sense, because presumably, if the readers thought it was up to their publication standards, your piece would have won or placed in the competition?
That is, should I take the piece's failure to place in the competition to imply that there would be no sense in sending it back as a regular submission?
I feel like someone must know the answer to this kind of question, but I don't know who to ask. Do any of you have any ideas?
I have two questions.
1.) What is a good community of creative writers on LJ? I interest-searched "writing," and "writers," and what this revealed is that there are literally hundreds of on LJ. writers' communities. A brief look through the ones that seemed most apropos, and had been most recently updated, revealed a range of literacy and coherence (and illiteracy and incoherence) that left me feeling just bewildered. So: I would love to get recommendations from actual human beings: you, whom I know.
2.) The immediate reason I was looking for a writers' community is that I have a question about submitting fiction to a literary journal. The question goes like this:If you submitted a piece of fiction to a competition held by a literary magazine that you like, and your submission didn't win or place, then -- assuming you like the literary journal -- does it make any sense to try sending the piece in again, as a regular submission?
Or would that make no sense, because presumably, if the readers thought it was up to their publication standards, your piece would have won or placed in the competition?
That is, should I take the piece's failure to place in the competition to imply that there would be no sense in sending it back as a regular submission?
I feel like someone must know the answer to this kind of question, but I don't know who to ask. Do any of you have any ideas?