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mk · 3434 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Dangers of Attachment - Putting Oneself Out There, and Rejections - Kenning Blog
I spent about a year submitting to poetry journals. Looking back, not one of those poems had a chance. Not unless the editor was breaking mad in just the right way... What has to be odd, is your relationship with the first one that gets through. I have to imagine you are left wondering: Why you? And do you convince yourself that your rejections were fundamentally different?