{"id":46,"date":"2006-03-27T23:36:19","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T23:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knownforms.com\/wordpress\/?p=46"},"modified":"2006-03-27T23:36:19","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T23:36:19","slug":"simultaneous-submissive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Simultaneous Submissive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\/\">Gwenda<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clairelight.typepad.com\/seelight\/2006\/03\/simultaneous_su.html\">Claire Light posts on the HELL of the simultaneous submission penitentiary. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who submits regularly to lit journals knows the special hell of &#8216;we do not accept simultaneous submissions&#8217;. Your story is literally locked up until you receive the rejection letter\/get out of jail free card that releases it. This is why we actually look forward to rejection letters. This is also why it takes <em>forever<\/em> to get anywhere in the writing world. Until you&#8217;ve got a stockpile of stories to rotate in and out of lit journals (and even after you do), you&#8217;re locked into the 6 month slush cycle of the journalworld with no way out. It can take a year to submit your story to a total of two zines, which means your odds of getting published before the ten year mark in this process are slim to none. And don&#8217;t think that you can do anything about it but kvetch because you can&#8217;t. This is the way the underpaid overworked lit world works. Or sort of works. And you just get to deal. Sucker!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Gwenda Claire Light posts on the HELL of the simultaneous submission penitentiary. Anyone who submits regularly to lit journals knows the special hell of &#8216;we do not accept simultaneous submissions&#8217;. Your story is literally locked up until you receive the rejection letter\/get out of jail free card that releases it. This is why we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}