I am obsessed with sending out my work... almost to the point of distraction. It's not just the work I obsess over - its the markets themselves. At the beginning of the year, I sat down and made a list of fiftythree markets I wanted to get into this year with the goal of actually finding myself in 5 of them. Well - it's now July and 4 of those markets are now dead markets, several are closed to submissions, and I have a new list of the frustrating markets that *I* love that do not love me back. The worst part is - these are my favorite mags and zines to read - I'm sure others out there feel the same way about them too. Actually, that's not the worst part - the worst part is that I *know* my work is going to get rejected before I send it out and the moment it's in the mail, in the ether - I'm checking for the next market. Someday the strangest thing will happen and one of these markets will send me an acceptance and I won't know what the hell to do ;)
~S
Posted by Shade53 at July 11, 2006 09:33 PM