I will tell you this: To receive a rejection letter is as great an honor, though a bit less pleasing, as it is to be published. What a rejection letter does is give you the creds to say "I submitted." You can forever say "I'm trying to be published", but what a negative statement that is. Say instead, I submitted. It's one phase, and if you do submit enough, you will become published. I NEVER truly submit expecting to become published. I submit with the idea of getting my story out there into the world.
Remember Yoda. There is no try, there is only do, or not do. Me. I prefer to do. I submit. If I'm published, great! But still, I submit. I do. I do not try. It's an amazing thing to the ego of one's self to know that you submitted because that is something you, and only you, can do. Publishing is someone else's decision.
So, if you want to submit, submit! Become even more immortal than you are!
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Date: 2007-07-27 04:29 am (UTC)Remember Yoda. There is no try, there is only do, or not do. Me. I prefer to do. I submit. If I'm published, great! But still, I submit. I do. I do not try. It's an amazing thing to the ego of one's self to know that you submitted because that is something you, and only you, can do. Publishing is someone else's decision.
So, if you want to submit, submit! Become even more immortal than you are!