Having been now on both sides of the submissions process, I’ve considered putting something like this together. Now, my friend Chris has done such a fine job, I don’t need to! Enjoy this terrific list of musings about the “seeking publication” life.
In mid-2008 I decided to get organized around what had until then been sporadic literary submissions. A color-coded Excel spreadsheet was born (of course). Over the years it grew to multiple tabs, and the 2008 tab tells me my first submission tracked there was June 26th, 2008. Since today is June 28, 2016, cursory mathematics indicates that I have been at this for eight years!
I aim for a submission a week. I’ve hit something like 70% of that target, racking up 297 total submissions. My stats (so far) are:
Besides getting published, and having lots of fun with Excel along the way, I’ve learned some things. Here, for your perusal, are eight lessons I’ve learned in eight years of doing literary submission:
- There’s a lot of research involved. Not all journals are created equal- Some publish only a fraction of a percent of what they receive, and may not…
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