Working Towards Publication: Putting it out there
When you get into this business of writing, people always talk about how difficult it is to get published. Truth be told, this is a conversation that happens all around you before you even begin to so much as think about trying to get some writing published. So it’s not as though you go into things blind to the challenges ahead. Yet, for all that people go on about the difficulties – the countless rejections that leave you heartbroken (if you’re anything like me anyway), the constant battle to get your work in front of someone willing to give it some time to be read, the vicious catch-22 where you need to be published to have some work looked at, but you can’t get work published if no one will look at it. It’s an industry that almost seems as though it has been designed to be especially difficult. Which, in a way, makes a certain kind of sense, because surely readers what to have quality writing to read.
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