Master the Art of Submitting: The Secret to Thriving as a Writer Without Burning Out
Submitting to lit mags is, you might say, the absolute worst. It’s as if you’re a chef who cooked the best meal of your life only to have to go out into the streets to beg a load of well-fed people to eat it. Fun.
Submitting is also an unavoidable part of a writer’s life. But my god, why? Is a question many writers ask themselves when they sit down to submit. There are more than 3,000 literary magazines! A few of them probably just went defunct. Another couple just lost their funding. Oh, them over there? They’re dead. There is no good answer or good reason for the messy-room syndrome of the literary world. It’s full of people. People behind everything with their people preferences and problems. The “why” of submitting is a personal step everyone needs to make before trying to fit the process into their life. A few common ones? Validation. Community. Prestige. Seeing where you stand among other writers.
