Congrats. And keep submitting them. I just reread the auto-biographical part of Fritz Leiber's Ghost Light. It discusses how he scraped through the Great Depression trying to become an author, while holding jobs from inspector at a McDonald-Douglas plant to Episcopal Minister (never made it through training). All the while he plugs away at submitting story after story. I think it takes him thirty years to be supported only by his writing (not counting the time he was writing encyclopedias in Chicago).
Thanks! Yeah ... you need to have stories out in circulation in order to make it work, and even though a lot of them may be rejected, sitting around with a bunch of mostly finished stories does me absolutely no good at all. Just getting them out there, having something on an editor's desk at all times -- it's the only way to get to where I want to be.
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(Anonymous) 2009-02-05 04:29 am (UTC)(link)Regards, Tim Broderick
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