Why We Need Filters and Even (Gulp) Editors
We all rely on filters and editors; the trick is to pick the right ones.
My father made a living as a freelance writer for more than 40 years and he taught me that you need to have a thick skin so the inevitable rejections don’t cripple you. He used to say that he could paper his walls with rejection slips and still he managed to support a family of four on what he earned. One of my favorite writing stories of his was how, years ago, he wrote an essay about what it was like to be a pin boy who set up bowling pins back before bowling alleys had automatic machines. He submitted it to Sports Illustrated and the magazine rejected it. He filed the story away. One day years later, when he had a lull in work, he decided to submit it again – to the same magazine. This time Sports Illustrated accepted it and it ran in …
another point of view
8:40 pm on Thursday, July 5, 2012
Wow, "maunderings"! What a word! I had forgotten. My best offering would have been excursiveness, hardly worthy of the bench in the same league. Art is long; life is short. (Ars longa, vita brevis) more ›