And another story is out of my head, on paper, and submitted to market. Yay, me!
I read a friend’s post on Facebook this week about how different submitting is now than it was when he began. I recognized much of his pre-Internet process, though he was submitting short stories and I was submitting novels at that point. But, yes. The search for markets (done via print books, often at the library), SASEs (self-addressed stamped envelopes), the large manila envelopes for packaging sample chapters, the trips to the post office, the record keeping (where are the sample chapters now? where have I already sent them? where should I send them next?), the waiting (well, waiting is still a factor, especially for some markets), and when a rejection arrived the whole process began again.
Rejection is still a bummer; acceptance still a cause for celebration, but the process? So much quicker and easier, and with so much less wasted paper. Hooray for progress!
