My eight hundredth short story rejection
Last Friday, I got a form rejection from Nature. That rejection was my 800th short story rejection. That number is so impossibly high. It is 123 stories that have been rejected from 175 markets. Since I sent out my first submissions on December 20th, 2003, I've gotten, on average, a rejection every four days. For a long time, the only things that I got …
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Woman of Letters to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.