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Aug 22 07 10:17 AM

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I'll start because I don't know how often I'll get to say this

I have just had a little piece accepted at AntipodeanSF. It will be published in the 10th Anniversary Edition, scheduled for Feruary 2008.



This is my very first fiction piece to be sold. It was also the very first piece I gained a rejection from. Four attempts later and it has now found a home.

In other news........

I have just created my own blog site. Please feel free to visit and pass comment, suggestions, throw tomatos, etc, etc

http://musingsofanaussiewriter.blogspot.com/

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Aug 22 07 2:59 PM

Woo hoo!! Good for you! That's great news! fictionfactor/w00t2.gif

(don't forget - those 4 attempts go onto your score for the rejection challenge, so they're important too).

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Sep 3 07 9:18 AM

Congratulations R-Tech.

Just for the record my record now stands at:

Submission Total: 16
Acceptance Total: 3
Rejection Total: 9

I have 7 pieces currently in the market place waiting response and 2 pieces under construction - including my novel. I'm also working on 3 additional contest entries.

Lets have everyone's numbers! Fiction, Tina - here's your chance to show everyone up

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Sep 3 07 9:36 AM

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Lets have everyone's numbers! Fiction, Tina - here's your chance to show everyone up 


LOL good try - but we don't work that way at Fiction Factor. If you wanted to be a part of a writing community where the owners only brag about their own 'successes', then you wouldn't hang around very long. Besides, there are plenty of newsletters and ezines around the world that focus solely on the writer releasing them - we don't want to be (in fact, we refuse to be) another one of 'those'.

This is our way of saying "it's all about you guys - the readers, the subscribers, the forum members - it's all about you, not us."

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Sep 4 07 1:24 AM

If my acceptance pile were thicker than my rejection pile, then I MIGHT be tempted to brag a bit, but as it's not, I'm keeping my mouth shut.




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Sep 4 07 5:53 AM

QUOTE (R-Tech @ September 03, 2007 07:49 am)
Hey Fiction Factor Forum Folks,

Just sold a short story, "Vegetable Matters" to MindFlights.

This puts my record at:

Submission Total: 54
Acceptance Total: 13
Rejection Total: 30
Pending: 4
Other: 7
Reprint Request: 4

Woo hoo! Congrats R-Tech! Well done. Keep those numbers climbing.

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Sep 5 07 6:47 PM

I submitted a poem that was published, even though I thought it was that bad nobody would ever get the idea to publish it.

Submission for a contest: didn't win, but story was published.

I published a text on my site and got a letter from a magazine who wanted to publish it. I said yes and they did.

Never been rejected. I don't submit because I'm not ready for it.

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Sep 7 07 5:07 AM

QUOTE (yaghish @ September 05, 2007 06:47 pm)
I submitted a poem that was published

Submission for a contest:  but story was published.

I published a text on my site and got a letter from a magazine who wanted to publish it. I said yes and they did.

Never been rejected. I don't submit because I'm not ready for it.

Ok - on three different occasions you say that it was published and that a magazine requested to publish it. Then you finish with you're not ready to be published.

I'm confused - you're published but not ready to be? Who said you're not ready to be? Do you have your work critiqued? Are they saying you're not ready - if they are tell them to go heave - obviously they're wrong if you've already been published.

If non of the above and it is your inner crittic who is telling you you're not ready, then you may never be. You need to have your work looked at by unbiased individuals who will tell you honestly where it's at. That's not an easy step to make. I understand the concern that you've slaved away over something and don't want a faceless stranger tearing it to pieces.

Trust me - not all your work will be of a publishable standard without another person looking - and commenting - at it. A lot of it you will consider to be good and it'll still get rejected. Critiques help toughen the skin up for that situation too.

Take a deep breath and submit your work to a crit group somewhere - not your friends or family. Work from there. You'll be ready to submit, and be published, in no time.

Good luck

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Sep 7 07 7:02 PM

In my opinion my fiction is not good enough yet, and I'm not proud about the things that have been published. I'm just not satisfied with it. But writing is my goal and not being published so I don't give it much thought.
Apart from that, publishing needs a commitment to marketing and I'm definetely not ready for that.

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