#Submitting #poetry, #fiction and #essays feels like sending your work into a black hole but there are ways to educate yourself so it’s not so bad. If you get a #rejection, that’s not a comment on your #writing or the piece’s worth. And other things #editors say. Just fyi. #writinglife
https://brevity.wordpress.com/2023/04/18/rejection-is-still-not-feedback/

A person who doesn't want to do the work of #Writing, #Rewriting, #Submitting, and #Revising simply isn't a #Writer.

Sometimes it feels like submitting stories is more trying than writing them. 2 short stories polished and submitted to 4 magazines tonight. Ready to watch a movie or something.
#LitMags #Submitting #amWriting #writerslife #writingCommunity @writers

Today I entered a flash fiction contest, submitted a book review, submitted an invoice for the book reviews I wrote last year, and submitted a poem to two journals. It was a productive day for me. TBH, I'm usually much lazier. 😉
#amwriting #submitting

Someone needs to tell #tradwives that #capitalism has stolen their bacon. Getting by on one income has been nearly impossible since the 1980s. That's when US wages became decoupled from productivity. Since then worker productivity has increased threefold, while real wages have remained flat. For most people, raising a family now requires two earners. Which ends with the "tradwife" both working, *and* taking care of the kids and the home and doing all the emotional labor for the family.

But the absurdity of modern #antifeminism in a nation that rejected the #era and is clamping down on #abortionrights goes far beyond chores and economics.

It's a slap in the face to all the women who've fought for #equality for the past 50 years, before which, women couldn't even get a credit card. Call these "tradwives" what they really are: #stockholm #stepford wives. These were the #antisuffragettes, and the exact same type of women in the older generation were led by Phyllis Schlafly. She convinced just enough of them that their "status" as housewives was so threatened that they should throw all other women under the bus, to keep women legally unequal to men--a full 100 years after winning suffrage.

Tradwives, unsurprisingly shun "The Feminine Mystique" in favor of "Fascinating Womanhood." Or even worse #christian dominionist tripe about #submitting and #obeying one's husband.

This is bad for men, too. Because the power imbalance of one-sided submission leads to long-term resentment and loss of libido. You can either have a maid, or a partner. After a while, a maid will no longer find their "employer" attractive. And then that sorry-ass dude is either in a sexless marriage or ends up cheating, divorcing, and having to learn to cook and clean and wash clothes on his own again after being accustomed to being "served" like a petty dictator.

But this gets even worse. The tradwife subculture is also a big gateway into far-right #whitesupremacist views. Because of course it is. The further back you look in American history, the whiter the privilege gets.

Why do people keep insisting on recycling the very worst ideas from the past that have already been tried, and failed?

#nostalgia is the wound that will never heal.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/27/us/tradwife-1950s-nostalgia-tiktok-cec/index.html

This is my Boxer #dog Dougal, chewing so intently on his big slab of moose antler, he hasn't eaten anything else yet and it's after 12 noon. This is a happy day for me, too, because I just got a request to send my #manuscript for "The Nitty Gritty & Other Complications" from a #publisher I had queried. My fingers are crossed for that collection.
#dogs #writing #amwriting #submitting #shortstories #publishing #query #CompanionAnimals #dogsofmastodon

I am #submitting stories today.
Wish me luck? 🤞 🍀
#WritingCommunity

Submitted something new and different and now feeling the familiar gut clenching fear of rejection. But. At least I gave it my best and now the project is out of my head.

What will be will be.

#Writing
#Submitting
#FearOfRejection

@SoniaSulaiman @sffbipoc Not sure I understand... are they asking you to make changes to your #writing that appear racist? Or are they making racist comments? Or are you understanding them to have a racist outlook? If any of those things were happening, for myself, I would opt out. I would likely tell them they'd made me uncomfortable with ... whatever they were doing. #Racism is learned. The only way to unlearn it is to be asked to face it. #writingcommunity #publishing #submitting #submit

Tonight, I'm revising and submitting a Christmas horror flash fiction in response to a submission call. Deadline: Midnight. (Below: Santa just wants you to have a good time.) Wish me discernment and quickly firing synapses. (Drinking sugar-free Slate mocha latte to boost mental sharpness.)

Photo: Florida Memory, Santa Claus at Panama City Beach, Florida, 1956, Florida State Archives, 1956, flicker

#AmWriting #FlashFiction #Xmas #Holiday #SeasonalFiction #SeasonalWriting #fiction #submitting

So, I revised the query letter to focus on the MC's primary emotional conflict (I was so in love with the "high concept," yeah), and I think it's an improvement. Maybe even "it" now? Anyway, I used it to query about 8 agents today ("about," she says, as if she didn't know exactly).

Did anyone else have a good day submitting, an activity I HATE, BTW.

#submitting
#writer
#WritingCommunity
#Querying

I just submitted to a journal that invited me to submit again, and this is the most nervous I ever get. "They liked that other work, they won't like this, they'll see it was a fluke."
#submitting
#WritingCommunity
#ImposterSyndrome

There’s something about my energy that attracts as many #Doms as it does #subs. I love it when a #dominant person approaches me about #submitting. It isn’t a power trip, it’s a reassurance that the man I present to the world is as open and free of judgement as I hope he is.

You don’t have to be a sub to be #submissive to me. Roles and labels are meaningless when it comes to meeting our needs. Explore and understand yourself.

#BDSM #domination #kink #SentimentalDom

Drool all you want, #footsub , you’ll only ever dream of getting to feel My #soles on your #piggy face.
you can try to #impress Me by #submitting as My #humanwallet #paypig #humanatm #whalesub .

Good luck.

I'm submitting to zines and journals like crazy today. It's been a long time since I've done this as I normally just go for competitions. I'm actually quite excited. #writing #submitting

Looking for places to submit #flashnonfiction - I have a few pieces that I’d like to get out there. #writing #submitting

Good evening, Mighty Mastodon People. If #writing is your thing, and you're #submitting short pieces - #poetry, #fiction, #NonFiction. #Memoir - then I'm interested!! Let me know and I'll be there with a follow.

To everyone writerly who has come over from The Other Place, Welcome! I think you will like it here.

15.31: The Agent in the Room https://writingexcuses.com/2020/08/02/15-31-the-agent-in-the-room/ #CareerandLifestyle #Demonstration #WritingCareer #Submitting #Season15 #Agents #Guest #QA

15.26: Taking the Chance, with David Weber https://writingexcuses.com/2020/06/28/15-26-taking-the-chance-with-david-weber/ #CareerandLifestyle #TheoryandTechnique #Submitting #Character #Season15 #Guest