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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:15 am    Post subject: Writing for Publishing? Reply with quote
Is anybody on this site writing to get published? Like, maybe you're not posting it here, ut you're writing it and hoping it will get published? I was... I actually sent a novel to a publisher. They regected it and I started another one. I was writing to get published, but I've realised that it would be really hard for a 13 year old to get published.

So is anyone here writing a book they hope to be published? Or maybe you're already published authors.

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When I first started writing seriously, it was because I had an intense desire to see myself published, with my book in a store. This dream has never left me, but something else came along. I realised I enjoyed writing simply for writing's sake. I no longer write to be published. I'm never sure why I write, but I gain contentment from it and the thought of stopping has never entered my mind. Millions of good things have come out of it -- I've done better at school, I think it's made me a more intelligent person, I joined a site like this, I've made amazing friends.

One day, maybe, if I continue to practice, I might be good enough and hard-working enough to consider publishing, but for now, I'm happy for the rewards writing brings me already.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've never written solely for the purpose of being published but yes, I'd love to get some of my work published and have made attempts to have it published but so far I've only had short stories and poems published in anthologies so nothing major.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've only gotten one rejection so far, and I have the same piece in "publishing purgatory" as I call it. I won't know until, latest, December, whether I was accepted or not.

It's the first thing I'm trying to publish, so I'm pretty proud of myself. It's a short story though, not a book. I'm always hopeful that one day I'll write an amazing novel and get it published but....the cynic in me says never.

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