Sometimes we all feel like we are floating in space, and that no editor will ever pay attention to us again. Times like that, you have to buck up and re-think your pitching strategy.
But don't take my word for it...
Listen to Claire Zulkey, a prolific writer and freelancing guru, as told us how to publish stories without spamming editors with a shotgun-style mass mailing:
"Of course it helps to write good things but a whole stack of great pieces isn't necessarily going to get you into the New Yorker. My advice is to keep plugging away at submitting--WITHOUT seeming like you're going about a shotgun approach.
"If, say, you really like author John Doe and see that he publishes a lot on McSweeney's, Google him and see where else he has published. Perhaps he's also published at X literary journal and Y humor writing website."
Read her whole interview here. If you scroll down the archived posts on the right hand side of this blog, you'll see a stack of more practical interviews with writers--nearly two years of content, my friends. In the interests of saving that content from oblivion, I'm pointing backwards to some of my favorite peices.
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