{"id":1188,"date":"2022-08-31T01:15:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T05:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2022-09-30T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T21:28:12","slug":"accept-the-unacceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"Accept the Unacceptance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=1181\">&lt;&#8211; Previous Comic<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=1194\">Next Comic&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1189\" src=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/issue135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/issue135.jpg 829w, https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/issue135-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/issue135-768x691.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=1181\">&lt;&#8211; Previous Comic<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=1194\">Next Comic&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well I guess I need to accept that I have no judgment whatsoever as to which of my stories are any good because this is 100% a true story. (I&#8217;m not kidding about 7 years and 27 rejections. And I&#8217;m not kidding that a story I didn&#8217;t even like when I wrote it got accepted to the first place I sent it. Why.)<\/p>\n<p>A small caveat, I guess: I have somewhat high standards for where I send stories; I only approach markets with decent pay because I think that correlates well with a publication&#8217;s longevity, and I want the places I sell my work to to be around for a long time. So yeah, the story that keeps getting rejected is getting rejected from some competitive magazines. Maybe it&#8217;s not terrible? Somehow?<\/p>\n<p><s>Then what&#8217;s your explanation for the one that sold immediately, genius?<\/s><\/p>\n<p><s>This is also the second time this happened<\/s><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;&#8211; Previous Comic\u00a0 \u00a0Next Comic&#8211;&gt; &lt;&#8211; Previous Comic\u00a0 \u00a0Next Comic&#8211;&gt; Well I guess I need to accept that I have no judgment whatsoever as to which of my stories are any good because this is 100% a true story. (I&#8217;m not kidding about 7 years and 27 rejections. And I&#8217;m not kidding that a story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}