The first thing I learned when I started my writing journey is that you need to be very patient. While it would be great to wait weeks rather than months to know if your story will be published or not, sadly, that’s not always the case. So, how do you cope with waiting months to know whether you can do
I’ve done it. I’ve submitted my story a day before the deadline. It’s still close mind, but it’s done. I clicked on that send button and sent my story on a mission. Hopefully, it will succeed. So I allowed myself some time to be proud, and then the nerves kicked in. I have two of my babies out there. I’m
After the regular burns of rejection, I shied away cocooning myself from any more kicks in the teeth. My story ‘When strangers meet’ had received four rejections, and no matter how many times I edited, tweaked, and changed the story, no one wanted it, not even for free. So did I submit it again? Hell no! I ran for the