revision
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Is it Good?
When I first found my way back to writing, I gave my precious baby of a short story to my husband to read. His reaction: “Is that it?” We divorced shortly after. I gave the same story to a friend, who liked it, and I mailed it out to a dozen literary magazines, all but one…
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Publication is not the point–but publish anyway.
Reading my blog, you might think I’m very anti-publishing. It’s true that I don’t think publication is the magic gold medal that we all once secretly believed it was. And it definitely means a lot less than non-writers think it does. (I keep a secret mental list of the family and friends who had zero interest in my…