Publishing Blues (Warning: Rant)

[Diocletian]

EDIT: Decided to take some time off from publishing attempts. Thanks to all who replied. :)

[LunaValesia]

Oh my god. That made me so sad.

Diocletian, if there is one thing I believe in more firmly than anything else, it's to never ever doubt yourself or what you can do.
If you love writing, I say keep doing it.

I want to work in drama. I've performed since I was tiny, but I'm always afraid I'm not good enough. I always think that I could never succeed, I could never be among the ranks of the best performers out there. I'm still going to try though.

Same goes to you. You're still young right? Right.

Please don't give up, you'll regret it.

Chin up Dio.

:D

[Imelda]

Ok, first: get over yourself.

Second: How many rejections you got? 200? 300? I doubt it. People with 300 rejections have still got published, so whatever you're at, it's nothing. You're a teenager (I assume). You're still developing, still learning your style, still learning about the writing world, about your genre/absence of, about everything. Getting published is a mixture of luck and talent, and right now you're basically running on luck because you have had time to develop your talent. You can't give up now. If you pick writing up again in 20 years, that's just 20 years of practise you've lost. Worse, you might have regressed. Keep on going. Take a break from submitting for a while and spend time here, and at other critique places, reading, and submitting there.

Or, you can submit to http://sbsmag.wordpress.com and I'll tell you been submitting wrongly or something. :p But seriously, sub to sbs like you would anywhere else and I'll give you a critique of your subbing technique. I can guarantee it can't be worse than the majority of subs editors get.

I know how hard it is to get rejections, but that's just the life of a writer. You have to harden yourself to it like you harden yourself to critiques.

Ok, I'm done. Sub to sbs. Really. You get personalised rejections and everything. Oh, speaking of, have you got any personalised rejections in your stack? Because that would be awesome.