rejection dejection and faith

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 Killed a hedgehog, lately?  

Today I received the response for my short The Collector from its first submission to The View from Thanks for considering it.

Diligence is one of my virtues so if #W1S1 founder,Milo James Fowler,  tells me that it is not a matter of being rejected it is just finding the perfect fit for your story then I have faith...  I'm a subscriber to paper copies of literary journals too.

After 25 years of painting only what I want and managing to make a good living, I have faith that my stories will be published.

first submission 2013

After trying Write1Sub1 in 2011 for a few weeks and receiving rejections I quit too early. If I'd kept it up over the last year and a half and written fifty-plus stories i might have at least one accepted.

In the last eighteen months I've read lots, studied, analyzed and written almost twenty short stories plus a novel.

One book that helped me understand that being rejected is normal was Stephen King's memoir: On Writing.  It's funny because as a professional artist that has been contacting galleries and applying for grants for twenty-five years, I thought I had a thick skin but I guess it never really does thicken.  We feel that our emotions and personal experiences are being criticized.  Now I know that is not true, (I think.)  It's a business.  Just like a gallery knows it's clientele, a magazine or editor knows theirs.  It's business.

Yesterday I submitted my first story for 2013, yippee.