Re: how to get published - fiction

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--- Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie> wrote:
> 
> 
>     The smugness...arises
>     from the knowledge that within those two rather
>     flat cakes were a few startling pieces of fruit
> from
>     my own orchard - where there still grow some
> vigorous
>     young trees.
> 
>     If a writer doesn't enjoy that knowledge, that
> confidence,
>     all the praise in the world won't help him.  And
> if
>     he does possess it, nothing else will matter
> very much.
>     Publication - which we all long for - is,
> finally, irrelevant.


Though publication can be irrelevant to the quality of
literature (i.e. all the postings re: statistical
counting of rejection slips for those eventually
published, significant works), personally longing for
publication is O.K.  If it judged by professionals
with integrity, then being chosen for publication; to
be read (hopefully) and enjoyed by many others, can be
the highest compliment for a writer (as well as
allowing he/she to continue to purchase groceries
regularly, pay the rent, update the computer, the old
Remington manual, or the Brother electric).

Knowledge that you can create "startling pieces of
fruit" isn't being smug at all.  It's having faith and
confidence in one's ability to write.

Though I'm not nearly as far along with writing as
some others here, the writing course I took a couple
of years back gave me confidence that I did have
ability.  And if I did take the time to "hunker down"
for awhile, to write and rework umpteen stories and
drafts, yeah, maybe I *could* write something that a
small press would publish.  I'd be happy with that at
this point - and to be published by not even one of
the well known ones here in the states either - you
get published once and then decide if you want to keep
on.  That last sentence makes it sound too easy.  I
may have gotten too confessional and other
Bananfishers can probably tell me war stories to
refute what I've just put down I suppose.
The guy in the corner office here at work has gone
home, but I've still got a ton of stuff to do.  Gotta
go for now.



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