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becoming a working writer

Becoming a Working Writer: The First, Terrible Year in Review

28 September 202022 September 2020Leave a comment

In October 2019, I took the plunge. I made my first short-story submission to a paying market. The rejection came twelve days later. It was a higher tier rejection—the best kind, short of one bearing a personal note from the editor. I felt energized. I was—to steal Mur Lafferty’s phrasing—a working writer.

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