{"id":1414,"date":"2020-01-23T10:54:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T15:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2020-01-23T10:54:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T15:54:48","slug":"keep-submitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/23\/keep-submitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Submitting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Remember I mentioned a place where I submitted TWO stories and they long-listed BOTH of them<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well they got back to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AND THEY ACCEPTED ONE OF THEM! (The other remains under consideration with them.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote Turtle Hatchlings in the summer of 2018 and have been sending it around since then. It’s a weird little story, that reads like fantasy but is 100% science fiction; I had quite a few beta-readers not understand the twist and had to tweak it a lot<\/em>. It racked up 18 <\/strong>rejections (including three long-listings). Normally by that point I would have trunked it; clearly something wasn’t working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But two things kept me pushing forward: the first was that I really loved this story, and believed it just needed to find the right market; the second was my dang submission goal. So I kept putting it out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here we are with an acceptance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JUST KEEP SWIMMING. JUST KEEP SUBMITTING.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And because of course it never rains but it pours, I have a second piece of news for this week: I GOT INTERVIEWED!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily Tyler over at PenMob is running a series on how to deal with rejection, and I am interview #2, which you can read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know it’s not the New York Times, but it’s my first interview as a writer<\/em> (that’s not for a magazine I just sold a story to) and I find it very exciting. There have been a lot of fangirl squeals around the house. So go check that out! One chunk, in particular, is very pertinent to today’s news:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a piece gets rejected, how long do you wait before sending it off again? Do you change anything before you do, and if so, how do you decide what you change?<\/strong>
I generally send pieces out again right away. I spend a lot of time working on the piece before it ever goes out the door \u2014 sending it to multiple beta-readers, revising based on their comments, making sure it is not only the best that I can make it but also exactly the story I want it to be. So unless a revise & resubmit comes back in (very rare), I chalk the rejection up to it being not the right market\/right time, and move on down my list. There\u2019s a market for every story, but sometimes it can take a while to find the right fit. <\/p>From “How to Deal with Rejection” at PenMob<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That’s Turtle Hatchlings<\/em>‘ story of success to a tee. Just in case you didn’t think I practice what I preach. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll have more details about the story when I get them, but for now it looks like TdotSpec<\/a> is launching in March, and I’ll be in their inaugural issue!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not a bad way to start a January. Let’s hope it is a sign 2020 will be a little bit easier than 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two great pieces of news to make up for the blahs of previous weeks: an acceptance and an interview!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,111,9],"tags":[73,237,239,195,238],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-submissions-rejections","category-writing","tag-acceptances","tag-interview","tag-penmob","tag-submitting","tag-tdotspec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}