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Writing Excuses 10.51: Q&A on Showing Your Work, with Daniel José Older

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The Importance of Rejection

You can't just resubmit with the permission. Unless the revisions that they gave you, in which case you would arrange with them,. Yeah, if they asked you. But that's an excellent answer. Speaking as someone who used to work on a science fiction magazine, if we were to reject something and then next month have the same thing back with changes, it just drove us nuts and made us hate it worse. Totally. In fact, you'll get a sense for as you're getting rejected how well you'regetting rejected. Yes. As you're getting close, your rejections get nicer, meaning you start getting, instead of the form rejections, you start getting ones that

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