You can drive yourself nuts trying to outthink judges or editors. (grin) Ah, the fine art of rejectomancy.
Of course, what you suggested above is also key. Keep submitting until you have enough pro sales you place out of the contest. Any way you look at it, the contest has encouraged you to forge ahead. (grin) Indeed, I cheerfully acknowledge that nearly half the short stories in my Invenstory came from those quarterly deadlines. And even the stories I've sent back a second time, you can do that if they don't get a Semi-Finalist or Finalist, have benefited from reviewing and editing. Two of my three Finalists were previously Quarter-Finalists, including "A Man in the Moon". Both of those stories also picked up 3000 words in the process. (big-grin)
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Date: Saturday, 17 April 2010 02:08 (UTC)Of course, what you suggested above is also key. Keep submitting until you have enough pro sales you place out of the contest. Any way you look at it, the contest has encouraged you to forge ahead. (grin) Indeed, I cheerfully acknowledge that nearly half the short stories in my Invenstory came from those quarterly deadlines. And even the stories I've sent back a second time, you can do that if they don't get a Semi-Finalist or Finalist, have benefited from reviewing and editing. Two of my three Finalists were previously Quarter-Finalists, including "A Man in the Moon". Both of those stories also picked up 3000 words in the process. (big-grin)
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