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.  

Write 1 sub 1 2013 challenge

Back in 2011 I tried the weekly write1sub1 but didn't continue. Too little time on hand and too little experience of sitting in a chair and writing but now I've got more of the second.  So here we go. Once a month is my goal.

Over 150 stories from the authors that participated on W1S1 last year were published and paid for. According to Ray Bradbury, if you write an sub a short story each week by the end of the year you will have 52.  And he says not all will be bad.  I believe it.  

#40 write one sub one

This week I submitted The General’s Demise, a short story about a sculptor, to a literary journal.

I'm late in joining the write 1 sub1 blog but there are still 12 weeks left to 2011.  Today there is an interview by the editor Angela Roberts of the Gloaming Magazine.  The Write1Sub1 blog has great links to many places that take all kinds of short stories.