New Year’s Goal
Hi Friends,
Happy New Year! May this year be gentle and kind to you all!
I read an article on Medium the other day about 100 Rejections. The author had set a goal to receive 100 rejections from literary journals in a year. That’s a little negative for me, but it made me think. One of the key pieces of publishing advice that I’ve been given repeatedly is to “collect rejections,” which I haven’t the stomach for. The article did give me the idea to try to make a lofty goal of 100 submissions to journals this year. I tried to find the exact article, but I couldn’t so I can’t paste a link.
Anyway, I submitted a few things last year. I’m not sure 100 is a good goal as it may be too many for me to aim for. Nonetheless, I submitted a poem today. So, 1 down 99 to go?
My boyfriend is a talented writer…. he submitted prob over 100 times last year and 3 things got picked up for publication…. I’m too soft skinned for that amount of rejection. I just self published a collection of poetry and even that is causing me nervousness to know people are reading it…..
@thecriticsdarling Hi! Congratulations on your poetry collection! If you’d like, send me a link, and I’ll pick up a copy. I love supporting fellow poets. I’m also pretty soft-skinned. I managed to force myself to submit around 6 poems last year and got 1 acceptance. I hope to make myself submit more this year. We’ll see.
@apexbloom that’s so sweet of you. I’ll send you the link, but don’t feel obligated to buy. https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/roxy-dixon/the-maelstrom/paperback/product-gk8m6k.html?page=1&pageSize=4
Will you be posting more of your writings here? Would love to read your work.
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