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writercisesoriginal posting: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 18:35:02 JST
From Writer's Digest, January 1994, p. 6 - an article about Thom Jones (1992 O. Henry award winner, etc.)
A couple of years ago, Jones says, he got "sick and tired" of being rejected. "I felt like, 'I've got nothing to lose. I'm just going to write what I want to write. I'm going to write a story that I'd like to read.' As soon as I did that, things changed."
...
Then, on a whim, he submitted it [his award winning story - rejected by the literary journals and small press] to _The New Yorker_. "I thought I might as well be rejected by them, too," he recalls. Instead, the magazine accepted the story, and Jone's career was launched.
[my note - he had been writing for 30 years without publication! with an 8 year "block" from despair!]
Moral (Let me pound that point home!): KEEP WRITING! NEVER ASSUME YOU CAN'T CRACK THOSE TOP MARKETS! It does happen.
(ya gotta believe!)
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From Writer's Digest, January 1994, p. 6 - an article about Thom Jones (1992 O. Henry award winner, etc.)
A couple of years ago, Jones says, he got "sick and tired" of being rejected. "I felt like, 'I've got nothing to lose. I'm just going to write what I want to write. I'm going to write a story that I'd like to read.' As soon as I did that, things changed."
...
Then, on a whim, he submitted it [his award winning story - rejected by the literary journals and small press] to _The New Yorker_. "I thought I might as well be rejected by them, too," he recalls. Instead, the magazine accepted the story, and Jone's career was launched.
[my note - he had been writing for 30 years without publication! with an 8 year "block" from despair!]
Moral (Let me pound that point home!): KEEP WRITING! NEVER ASSUME YOU CAN'T CRACK THOSE TOP MARKETS! It does happen.
(ya gotta believe!)
tink
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