I’m a strong believer in simultaneous submissions. So I’ve had this creative non-fiction short story, “What To Expect While Grieving for Your Father” that I’ve been submitting around multiple places for a month or so. It’s gotten three rejection letters–from New Delta Review, Owl Eye Review, and Palooka–and today [drum roll please!] I was notifiedContinue reading “What to Expect While Submitting to the Owl Eye Review and Palooka”
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The “Writing What You Know” Rule is Baloney
A lot of you writers are probably throwing up your arms in disagreement at my sacrilegious statement. But honestly, fiction writing would be really boring if authors strictly stuck to writing only what they know. Books wouldn’t portray fantasy creatures that they concocted because they never experienced meeting one themselves. Can you imagine how awfulContinue reading “The “Writing What You Know” Rule is Baloney”
Healing From Rejection
For those of you feeling a little bummed about a recent rejection letter, I recommend you check this out. Learning to accept rejection is imperative for any writer. Most writers realize this quickly. Or they make the mistake of self-publishing (guilty as charged). But one important aspect of rejection that many do not consider isContinue reading “Healing From Rejection”
Quiz: How to Identify (And Avoid) Submitting Your Creative Writing Under the Influence
It happens late at night. Well after everyone else has gone to bed, during the witching hour when there’s not even any good reruns on television. You’ve checked your email and submishmash account 12 times successively in the hopes of an update. You reread the short story which most recently received rejection from the literaryContinue reading “Quiz: How to Identify (And Avoid) Submitting Your Creative Writing Under the Influence”
Lesson: You Can Get a Rejection Letter at Any Time
Despite the fact that it’s Sunday morning, I was able to wake up and smell the roses with a form rejection letter in the mail. A form rejection letter at that. [Depressed hang of head]. But at least we learned something from it, yes? Palooka: A Journal of Underdog Excellence Official submission response time: Continue reading “Lesson: You Can Get a Rejection Letter at Any Time”
Choices: Do New Writers Have to Submit to Online Literary Journals?
Like Chicken Little, a lot of people are running around shouting that the publishing world is going under. This allegedly inevitable transformation to digital is going to delete jobs, while journals and magazines that don’t keep up and reformat for iPad will go extinct. Literary journals are traditionally characterized as small and underfunded. Basically, they’reContinue reading “Choices: Do New Writers Have to Submit to Online Literary Journals?”
Elementary: You Don’t Need to be Sherlock Holmes to Figure Out What’s Wrong With Your Manuscript
You just need to be Extremely Patient. In the Ungodly Long-Term sense. I have this middle-grade historical fiction novel about Joan of Arc that I’ve been working on for what feels like forever. I researched for a year and a half. Towards the end of that research process, I simultaneously wrote the first draft inContinue reading “Elementary: You Don’t Need to be Sherlock Holmes to Figure Out What’s Wrong With Your Manuscript”
An Occupational Hazard: Why Writers Resent Holidays
Let’s be honest. We always become really committed to write, to create, to finally-put-that-great-story-idea-on-paper the exact moment that we can’t; namely, when we have other commitments be they to family, friends, traditions, dirty dishes, school, our bodies. It’s convenient. It’s certainly easier to glower and blame an early morning sunrise service, a parade, or aContinue reading “An Occupational Hazard: Why Writers Resent Holidays”
Listen to Your Mother: Waiting By the Phone Never Gets You Anywhere
Sixty-five unopened emails greeted me. Not a single one was about my submissions. An awful great amount were from Victoria’s Secret and Barnes and Noble, warning me about last-minute sales. Lame. One was The Honors Review, announcing that the print version of this year’s issue are heading out in the mail this week (!!!) So,Continue reading “Listen to Your Mother: Waiting By the Phone Never Gets You Anywhere”
There’s Absolutely Nothing New or Interesting in the Publishing World
Or at least, if there is, I don’t know about it. I’m on vacation in Georgia this week with the best boyfriend in the world and it is a complete vacation. I refuse to be chained to my computer or worry about all the NYU publishing institute homework I should be finishing up. In fact, I leftContinue reading “There’s Absolutely Nothing New or Interesting in the Publishing World”
Hannah Karena Jones 