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A great description of a journey....And so glad about the publications!

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Thank you, Thaisa!

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Oct 10Liked by Claire Polders

Claire! Your flurry of submissions paid off! Congratulations! Love the one that made it into Slate especially. Yay!

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Thanks, Jeanine!

I do submit in flurries, knowing most pitches will be rejected, but sometimes I have more success than I’d anticipated.

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Oct 10Liked by Claire Polders

I was impressed when you mentioned you’d submitted to like 20 publications? And I thought, that’s the way to do it. Your mind’s on the prize— go for it.

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Early on, I read an essay about why an author should aim for a 100 rejections a year. That strategy worked for me—took the sting out of rejections and turned it into an accomplishment.

https://lithub.com/why-you-should-aim-for-100-rejections-a-year/

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Oct 10Liked by Claire Polders

When I was applying for a job in publishing in SF my older wiser journalist brother told me, "Send out 100 resumés. It only takes one." He was right! Maybe life itself is a numbers game. (I'll think about that later ): ) Also, think rejections give you muscle. I always like hearing about actors or writers who pin them to their walls, like wallpaper. A badge of honor.

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Love this! "Here I was, a young woman with a complex emotional life plagued by daily neuroses, and here was my fiction, written by a philosophy major who wanted to enter the Noble World of Literature."

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Thanks, Stephanie! There was such a huge divide between these two selves.

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Congratulations on your breaking down the wall brick by brick and on all your recent publication success!

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Thank you, Eric!

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