I've been hitting the "submit" button on website submissions non-stop since last Monday when I started trying to get published. I'm new at this, so I have no idea what reasonable expectations are, but as a new writer, still hopeful, and ambitious, and insecure, I need an immediate reply. I need just one to write back and say, "That's it! You're published! Here's your $10,000."
Okay, I get it. That's unrealistic on every level.
But no matter how great I think a piece is when I hit submit, everyday that goes by without an acceptance/validation, I am more and more sure that my writing is "pedestrian." I don't know why that's my go to word for it; I'm not even really sure I know what it means. But that's what goes on in a writer's head while we wait.
So, editors of the world, tell us; what do you do in the hours and days between "submit" and reply? Is it possible you just actually have a life beyond work and you're not in the office? If that's it, good for you. Just let us know.
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