For those of you that submit to magazines, journals, e-zines, or book publishers on a regular basis, how do you go about doing it?
I know the standard way: follow the guidelines.
But how do you stay in the habit of keeping stories in rotation? I had a story rejected a while back and for whatever reason decided, "Well, I guess that one's not good enough." I only submitted to the one place. I also have a novella I wrote years ago that I submitted two places and haven't bothered to send anywhere else. It's not because I felt like "Oh no, I got rejected. I'm never submitting again" and got depressed. I just didn't send them anywhere else for whatever reason: forgetfulness, laziness, etc.
I have a spreadsheet that I borrowed from Benjamin that I think is a great way to keep track of where submissions have gone and such, but I just wonder if anyone has any good patterns or habits that keep them constantly writing, editing, and submitting.
For now I'm not looking for book publishers at the moment, but more for short story markets.
Any tips?
I know the standard way: follow the guidelines.
But how do you stay in the habit of keeping stories in rotation? I had a story rejected a while back and for whatever reason decided, "Well, I guess that one's not good enough." I only submitted to the one place. I also have a novella I wrote years ago that I submitted two places and haven't bothered to send anywhere else. It's not because I felt like "Oh no, I got rejected. I'm never submitting again" and got depressed. I just didn't send them anywhere else for whatever reason: forgetfulness, laziness, etc.
I have a spreadsheet that I borrowed from Benjamin that I think is a great way to keep track of where submissions have gone and such, but I just wonder if anyone has any good patterns or habits that keep them constantly writing, editing, and submitting.
For now I'm not looking for book publishers at the moment, but more for short story markets.
Any tips?