5 replies back for my short stories, 5 of them rejections, all of them fairly positive ones. I seem to be suffering from an inability to send the right story to the right publication, which I suppose is better than suffering from an inability to write well.
So far I’ve been told my pieces are too contemporary, too long, too short, or not quite the right tone. All publications invited me to submit again, or revise and resubmit same piece. None of these rejections hurt my feelings overly much, but invites to resubmit always make me happy. ^^
I hope everyone else is doing good with their writing.
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Jan 20, 2011 @ 00:14:15
It does sound like your writing is being appreciated. Keep sending it around. The right market is out there somewhere. 🙂
I haven’t queried on my poetry to the magazine you suggested, yet, but I may still do it. Thank you for taking an interest. Time is my problem, but the time will come eventually. Blessings to you, Andrea…
Jan 20, 2011 @ 14:25:16
As my husband always says, if you don’t send out queries your chance of getting rejected is 0%, but so is your chance of being published. I finally started sending out queries for my completed family advent devotional. I’m not holding my breath, but I need to start taking chances or I’m never going to get anywhere.
Jan 22, 2011 @ 15:37:25
My favorite is the time I was rejected by Marion Zimmer Bradley (yeah, I’m that old). I kept the rejection just because she signed it (again, back in the day, editors personally signed their rejections on . . . wait for it . . . letters). She was also very kind about my writing, but the story I had sent just didn’t fit with her anthology (at that time, it was too many unicorns).
You hang in there. If they invited you to re-submit, they think your writing is good and that is the important part.
Good luck!