Well, I’ve submitted my first fictional short story today (last night, actually, but you get the idea). Thanks to Writer’s Market online and the 2007 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market, I found a couple of places that would take a nearly-9,000 word piece — which is longer than most magazines want to publish — and sent it off into the ether. You typically don’t hear anything for three months on this sort of thing, which means that I must continue writing with no word on whether or not I suck 
Seriously, I’ve read enough to think I can do this writing bit, but we’ll see what the other editors in the world think. There’s nothing like putting a work out there, letting people tell you how wrong it is, to get the adrenaline pumping. Cool stuff, and I must say, the Writer’s Market stuff made it much easier to know what to do to improve your chances.
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