A Brief Look Back

This is a lovely little feature from The Submission Grinder to show how my attempts at actually getting published are going. I'll admit the numbers are not entirely impressive, but everyone starts somewhere. It helps to stop and take pride in what you have actually accomplished. 

First, this isn't really a "Lifetime" status. It's missing the sporadic submissions and writing I did before 2014. It doesn't count the attempts at getting any of the novels published either. It really just shows how things have been since before I "restructured" my attempt to get published. 

All my life, I've had the same end goal. It's the one most writer's share. Now, I'm trying to get more serious about the whole thing. Not that I ever wasn't serious. I just thought someone would stumble across me and instantly publish everything I ever penned. How silly of me! 

So now I'm trying to keep myself on the straight-ish path. Writing, editing, constantly sending stories out. I'm about to start querying book agents. I wish I had taken this a lot more seriously before, and maybe the Acceptances would be larger. Or maybe just the Rejections would have grown. 

In the end, I'm proud of all 16+ of those pieces. I'm proud of how far the Muse and I have come. Things are different from the first rejection, where I spent the following days curled up in a ball refusing to leave my misery. We will get to the dream one of these days, won't we? I have faith.