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Rejection: Thank you for allowing us to carefully consider “XYZ.” Unfortunately, we have to pass at this time. We wish you the best in placing this piece elsewhere. Reply: Thank you for your careful consideration of my story at 3:54 AM on Sunday morning, the time known for the pick of the human attention.

Watched Star Wars episode VII on Netflix. They should stop making more of those. They are getting worse and worse and are giving the franchise a bad name. Adam Driver is awful as Kylo Ren and everyone else is just plain bad. The original actors are past their prime and the young ones’ jokes are…

Serial monogamy: don’t be married to your first novel. Be married to the first, second and third.   ********* Question: Why my story was rejected? A short answer: your story wasn’t rejected because it was bad, but because other stories were better. A longer answer: your story wasn’t rejected because it was bad, but because…

Don’t freak over a word. Freak over two words in the row. About their choice and interconnection.

The role of a literary magazine editor is to improve the world by publishing better stories and poetry and not by punishing writers for their wrongs through blacklisting.

This post was updated on 7/19/18.    If you read this, you are probably a writer. Most people are nowadays. All you need is a smart phone (or maybe a computer) and a dream. And every writer must be in want of a publication. You submit and then you wait. And then you get a…