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Just received my nine hundredth short story rejection
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Just received my nine hundredth short story rejection

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Naomi K
Oct 31, 2012
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Yep, just got it half an hour ago, from West Branch (it looks like at least a few literary magazines will reject you in less than a month). Not sure if I have too much commentary on this one. I actually got three rejections today*, so that makes 901 rejections from 190 markets on 136 stories. Since getting my eight hundredth rejection, I've sold four st…

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