My last post, I wrote about sending off my short story. Well, I just got a response back yesterday. It was a no.
But, the note was kind and didn’t totally tear down my dreams of fame and fortune.
Thanks for submitting your story to IGMS. It had some good qualities, but in the end I only have a limited number of slots and your story didn’t rise high enough to make the final cut.
Makes it sound like my story was at least considered. Of course, this is probably a form rejection, but it is still nice and positive.
The next step for this story is to put it up for my online writing group to critique. That should help me figure out where it is weakest.
I have no idea where else to send this, so I’ll have to do some more research on that too.
garrett on July 29th 2009 in Hero Journeys, IGMS, Path, Trick or Treat
Well, last night I sent off my first short story submission to Intergalactic Medicine Show. It is a bit frightening.
I originally created the story at Liberty Hall Writers as part of a flash fiction contest. I liked the story but haven’t done much with it for a couple years.
Then, I needed something for my Writing Group (The Point Writing Group, to be specific) and pulled it out, dusted it off, and totally revamped it. My writing group gave it a pretty good reception, with some much needed advice on how to improve the “surprise” for the end, and I rewrote it again. That was a couple months ago.
Then, yesterday, I pulled it out again and added in more world building-type detail to bring it even more to life.
I felt like I’d done all I could for this story and so I sent it out into the big bad world.
It will probably be rejected (it is my first submission after all), but the experience has been good for me.
First Rejection
