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Status Anxiety and the Semi-Successful Writer

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Naomi K
Jul 27, 2012
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My first pro sale was just about four years, to Nature. Then I didn't sell anything else for the better part of two years, until I sold a story to Redstone in March of 2010. Since then I've been selling stories at a gradually accelerating pace. And that's been pretty nice, actually. But it's also led to at least three bouts of fairly severe status anxie…

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