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[idan_cohen]

Dear, dearest internet; it is three in the morning and boy am I sort of tired. I think it is time to bum you all out. I need you to realize how annoyed I am. I am pretty annoyed. Below the cut find

yes!

A list of my publications and rejections so far. I will update this list as rejection letters come streaming in, pissing red hot acid into my

Comments

[starkruzr]

http://fromtheasylum.com/2007september/storytellingape.html

I lol'ed. Hard.

Are you seriously supposing that most awesome writers get all of their shit accepted for publication? My response to this would be, "Motherfuck, Flax, you got SEVEN submissions published? Rock the fuck on."

[sulcharae]

I echo the "motherfuck" sentiment.

I mean, seriously, are you complaining about getting published? Do i have to smack a bitch? Smoke a fucking cigar and be happy.

[kaura_nighthawk]

Do you really think that editors carefully and wisely consider each and every entry that comes their way? Just keep playing the odds- you're probably well ahead of the curve as it is.

[aoanla]

Every writer who is not yet a "name" gets tons of rejections. You know this. That doesn't, I admit, stop it from being depressing.

[the_entity]

What everyone else said. It's not a bad track record you've got there - especially considering you're racking up a publication record while still in your late teens, which is pretty damn impressive. In days to come, you will surely (or as surely as possible in a world in which war, plague and thermonuclear oblivion happen even to the best of us) take pride in showing your pile of accumulated rejection letters to your wide-eyed grandchildren.

[code_epic]

Well, that didn't go as you expected, did it?