Comments on: Tips to Getting Your Story Published http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/29/tips-to-getting-your-story-published/ Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:58:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: The Writer’s Coin » Blog Archive » Review—The O Henry Prize Stories http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/29/tips-to-getting-your-story-published/#comment-1282 The Writer’s Coin » Blog Archive » Review—The O Henry Prize Stories Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:09:52 +0000 http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/29/tips-to-getting-your-story-published/#comment-1282 [...] not. It’s almost like sending spam out and seeing if you get lucky. One of the best tips is to know where you write. Instead of paying $5 to subscribe to a single journal that I may not [...] [...] not. It’s almost like sending spam out and seeing if you get lucky. One of the best tips is to know where you write. Instead of paying $5 to subscribe to a single journal that I may not [...]

]]> By: The Writer’s Coin » Blog Archive » Book Review—Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/29/tips-to-getting-your-story-published/#comment-1103 The Writer’s Coin » Blog Archive » Book Review—Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Thu, 15 May 2008 11:21:27 +0000 http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/29/tips-to-getting-your-story-published/#comment-1103 [...] Henry Prize Stories 2007 and the reason I’m going through so many short stories is to follow my own advice. After every story I finish I find out where it first came out in (what literary journal or [...] [...] Henry Prize Stories 2007 and the reason I’m going through so many short stories is to follow my own advice. After every story I finish I find out where it first came out in (what literary journal or [...]

]]> By: The Writer’s Coin » Blog Archive » Know where you write, Redux http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/29/tips-to-getting-your-story-published/#comment-1095 The Writer’s Coin » Blog Archive » Know where you write, Redux Thu, 15 May 2008 10:45:59 +0000 http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/29/tips-to-getting-your-story-published/#comment-1095 [...] *More tips on getting published. [...] [...] *More tips on getting published. [...]

]]> By: The Writer’s Coin » Blog Archive » The Best of April http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/29/tips-to-getting-your-story-published/#comment-1009 The Writer’s Coin » Blog Archive » The Best of April Sat, 03 May 2008 20:41:09 +0000 http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/29/tips-to-getting-your-story-published/#comment-1009 [...] Tips to Getting Your Story Published: Follow these and you’re ahead of the game. [...] [...] Tips to Getting Your Story Published: Follow these and you’re ahead of the game. [...]

]]> By: GG http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/29/tips-to-getting-your-story-published/#comment-985 GG Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:51:30 +0000 http://www.thewriterscoin.com/2008/04/29/tips-to-getting-your-story-published/#comment-985 I don't know why, but articles Like that one always stress me out. It's written to be inspirational: follow these tips and you could be published! But to me, it's: why aren't you submitting anything anymore, you big, lazy sell-out? Sigh. I had such grand dreams when I entered grad school, when I covered my first newspaper article, when I applied for my first big job. So many dreams have come true, and so many are just different. I'm a different kind of writer than I thought I'd be, for now. IMO, writing is a form of thinking--on paper. The best essays or articles are the ones that have done a great deal of living and thinking and put them fittingly into words. So maybe this is rationalizing, but I guess I tell myself I'm doing a lot of the thinking and living right now (and vocational editing/writing and fun blogging/pf-ing). At some point, I think I'll be ready to go back to those other dreams. I don’t know why, but articles Like that one always stress me out. It’s written to be inspirational: follow these tips and you could be published! But to me, it’s: why aren’t you submitting anything anymore, you big, lazy sell-out?

Sigh.

I had such grand dreams when I entered grad school, when I covered my first newspaper article, when I applied for my first big job. So many dreams have come true, and so many are just different. I’m a different kind of writer than I thought I’d be, for now.

IMO, writing is a form of thinking–on paper. The best essays or articles are the ones that have done a great deal of living and thinking and put them fittingly into words. So maybe this is rationalizing, but I guess I tell myself I’m doing a lot of the thinking and living right now (and vocational editing/writing and fun blogging/pf-ing). At some point, I think I’ll be ready to go back to those other dreams.

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