If I had known how difficult it is to find an agent or get my writing published, either short stories or book-length works, I would have never started writing in the first place.
I have spent years, the past seven at least, and hours, thousands upon thousands of hours, and it was all for naught.
All of my time, money, and effort that I have spent pursuing being a writer has consumed me and has been unproductive.
I am not to the point yet where I can call it a waste.
How does one know when to quit?
Isn’t this called insanity–to keep repeating the same actions but expecting different results?
It is not the rejection that is the problem, nor the sense of failure.
I’ve been rejected my whole life by people and places far more important than the publisher of some online and/or paper journal with a dubious following.
It’s the time involved and time wasted. In most cases, you don’t hear back from the publishers for three or four months, if at all.
In some cases, you never hear back, and you must assume you were rejected.
The time lost, the energy wasted, and also money lost is the problem.
Many publishers require a reading fee that averages from five dollars to 20.
In the event of a rejection, there is no refund.
This is too frustrating and too much.
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