>tfw found out I'm going to have another short story published

How's YOUR writing career coming, /lit/?

>>24525333 (OP)
Badly. I asked someone to read something I wrote and they didn't love it.

I made six million dollars with my last book and publishing companies are literally begging me to write another one.

>>24525333 (OP)
does publish mean paid as well?

>>24525333 (OP)
Where are you submitting your stories? magazines?

>>24525365
Magazines, journals, websites. You have to search around.

>>24525396
Mind giving me some tips? Do you check magazine shelves at stores and contact the company? What journals are you contacting? where do you find them? what kind? who are you interested in? did you cold call and drop them a sample of your work? can you provide a sample of your work?

You can gloat all you want, I want to do what you're doing.

It's pretty easy to get 'lished on McSweeny's but there is more to it than the millennial battlecry of "I did a thing"

>>24525402
Oh, well, the journal in question is actually one I got recommended to by the editor of another journal that I had submitted to beforehand. I showed the first journal three stories, the editor rejected them all, but said that one of my stories in particular might be a good fit for this current journal. So I submitted that story to this current journal and got accepted. I made sure to namedrop the editor of the original journal, which may or may not have helped, but I figured it couldn't hurt.

Social media is a big way to find journals. Go to Twitter or Instagram and search "submissions," you'll usually find accounts announcing that they're open for submission to poetry or prose.

Also, Submittable is a big submissions portal that a lot of magazines and journals use. They have a "Discover" tab that you can use to search for journals open for submission. Check it out:

https://manager.submittable.com/opportunities/discover

>>24525352
the 6 gorillion?

>>24525411
This reply went above and beyond my expectations, thanks dawg.

>>24525333 (OP)
Any writing tips?

>>24525333 (OP)
whats your race gender and sexuality

>>24525465
homosexual jewish man

>>24525333 (OP)
Please post first page for sake of edification

>>24525333 (OP)
How did you become so good?

I am 20 years old with nothing written except poetry, I have failed.

>>24525333 (OP)
which manga is this?

>>24525333 (OP)
It is going well but I really need to work on getting short stories published and my agent is forever telling me to do so.

>>24525333 (OP)
You're not a white man. That's why.