So, given the deck of CBOs I'm collecting, why do I continue to pursue traditional publishing for my stories? Validation. It's one thing for my friends or my writer's group or my beta readers to tell me they think a story's good. But it's another thing entirely when someone who doesn't know me picks my story out of a landslide of other good stories and says, this is worth the time and space to publish.
Another morning, another Character Building Opportunity (rejection) from a fiction magazine not interested in one of my stories. Granted, of the five stories I have in submission circulation, this is not the strongest, but I've workshopped it, revised it based on feedback from some of the places I've submitted it, and tightened it up, and it's a solid piece of work.
So, given the deck of CBOs I'm collecting, why do I continue to pursue traditional publishing for my stories? Validation. It's one thing for my friends or my writer's group or my beta readers to tell me they think a story's good. But it's another thing entirely when someone who doesn't know me picks my story out of a landslide of other good stories and says, this is worth the time and space to publish.
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Torah Cottrill
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