Okay, so here's the stats.
Time spent:
• 3.5 years of farting around
• 8.5 years of getting serious
Stories/Poems (finished to the point of feeling they're ready for publication):
• 4 trunked stories
• 3 stories in submission
• 4 stories needing rewrites
• 4 poems
Rejections:
• 66 rejections to date (2 trunked stories were not tracked, I'm guessing an additional 10+ rejections on top of the 66)
Bragging Rights:
• 1 acceptance
• 3 Finalist placing in the Writers of the Future Contest
• 2 Honorable Mentions in the Writers of the Future Contest
2 comments:
I don't keep those kinds of stats, so I have no idea.
So do you, like, count the same story being rejected from 5 different places as 5 rejections? Cause I know people who try a story at 20-25 places before they give up on it.
I had to go back over all my story information and count them up. I did the same thing for the "Bragging Rights" side bar, but I didn't count the rejections.
Yes, if 1 story is rejected 5 times I count that as 5 rejections.
My system is keeping an envelope for each story and writing on the outside when and where I submit it. Then I write a note as to how it was rejected (form or personal note). Any hard copy correspondence about the story goes in the envelope (how I was able to determine when and which story did what at the WotF). So to count the rejections it was a matter of counting the entries leaving off things currently in submission.
I was shocked at how few markets I would try a story at. Some of them I know I need to rewrite (or trunk). Once that's done they'll go out again.
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