The editors will not mock my story over lattes.

[osprey_archer]

I have been preparing a story to submit to the cold hard cruel world of magazine editors, and have therefore conceived a mantra to get me through the experience.

The editors will not mock my story over lattes.
The editors will not mock my story over lattes.
The editors will not mock my story over lattes.

They may mock it over frappuccinos; they may mock it over macchiatos; but at lattes I draw the line.

(No, really, I think the story will likely fall into the grand gray range of stories that are grammatically impeccable and otherwise forgettable, which are read, rejected, and forgotten by coffee break. But it's the best I can do, and I figure it will help me build up a thicker skin, and it shouldn't be actively painful for the poor slush reader.)

Comments

[troublems03.livejournal.com]

It's so fantastic that you're going to submit your story. Best of luck! And, of course, it'd be fantastic if it gets selected but missing out isn't the end of the world - there's many more magazines to try and always more time.

I'm sure it'll go swimmingly.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[redskyis.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, they won't MOCK it, and it certainly won't be done over coffee of any sort (that would just be low). And you CERTAINLY shouldn't have to build up a thicker skin, it's your baby! You've put time, and effort, and thought into it, if you didn't care if it was rejected I'd be worried!

...Good luck, by the way!

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I put it in an envelope and everything today, so now it's just waiting to go out to the mailbox. *sniffs* Be careful out there, little story!

BTW, I'm planning to pick up Christmas present-y things in Barcelona & England. Is there anything you particularly want? (Besides a pony. Unless what you really want is a pony in a snow globe, in which case they surely have it somewhere in London.) Or particularly don't want? (E.g., "NOT ANOTHER COFFEE TABLE BOOK NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!")

[exuberantself.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be a cliche! You'd never have the chance of getting accepted if you didn't chance the rejection (over and over and over).

Good luck! :)

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

The story is In The Mail, so we'll see how that goes.