Waiting Mode
Well, I finally got off my duff in the past few weeks and started submitting stories again. Of course, now that means I’m in total waiting mode, wondering when those editors will ever get back to me about my “masterpieces”! And, sadly, the one I’m most anxious to hear about is at a market with a response time of four months! Yikes!
Waiting is never easy — it’s probably one of the most difficult parts of this whole writing-submitting-publishing process (aside from the inevitable rejections, of course). I will say, though, now that I’ve been doing this a while (when I started to attack this in a serious fashion, I sent my first story out in February 2007), the waiting is a smidge easier than it used to be. Maybe it’s cushioned by the fact that I know I can get some acceptances, whereas, before I’d ever been published, it was always uber-anxiousness.
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March seems to be all about waiting and it’s interfered with my focus. My bad. I’m waiting for Tattoo Highway to come out with a short piece (they publish in March so at least I know it should be out by the 31st). And I’m waiting on several other little bits scattered here and there.
I’m in waiting mode, too. I have over a dozen things pending on my submissions tracker. Waiting is so hard!