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  • Who’s Got Imposter Syndrome?

    If you are a writer (like me) or, actually, any kind of artist trying to get published or displayed or viewed or whatever, do you suffer from the feeling of despair of ever being taken seriously in your art, a phenomenon frequently known as imposter syndrome?  Personally, I think the term is a bit misleading…

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  • The Hardest Part About Writing

    This particular post is directed largely to my writing friends, though many of you who are not writers—that is, writers in a more or less full-time sense—might get a similar take-away message that could be applied to other professions and activities.  What I’m talking about here is the most difficult thing I have encountered since starting…

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  • Fees–Great And Small

    Over the past several months (late 2017 and early 2018), I’ve sent out several short stories to literary magazines around the country.  Some submissions were simply in consideration for publication, while others were to enter contests.  I’ve even scanned the submission requirements of other magazines to which I did not submit.  (For any one of…

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