...that is truly the question.
I have been told that an aspiring author will have to accept many, many rejections before they are published. Hundreds of rejections. I'm not looking to have a book published (yet), but I am considering submitting one of my short stories that I wrote for a class last semester to a literary journal on campus.
The only thing is that I'm pretty sure they won't take a fantasy story. They'll accept my submission, but I really doubt I'll be chosen. I'm not saying that to be pessimistic, I'm saying it because the last issue of the journal I saw had essays and a cryptical short story in it, one of those ones that sounds like it was written by Ernest Hemingway or something. While I have nothing against Hemingway (except that I've been scarred by having to read "Old Man and the Sea"), I'm not particularly fond of his stuff.
So since it's a literary journal, I doubt mine will be chosen... but I feel like this is a low-key way to start learning about rejection. (This sounds so depressing!) It's due by April 9, though and I still have a ton of homework and exams to do in the next two weeks. Maybe I'll have my husband look over the short story instead of my prologue, though, and try hard to make the submission....
No comments:
Post a Comment