This sounds so frustrating but I am so glad to hear that you're continuing on. At the end of the day, you're an amazing poet and writer and nothing changes that.
That first acceptance poem is amazing! I totally know what you mean about response times when submitting. So much work goes into submitting and it sucks when you have to wait a year just to be rejected.
I've taken Megan Falley's Poems That Don't Suck workshop a few times and she encourages students to aim for 100 rejections a year as a way to encourage them to submit and also to get used to rejections (as a normal part of the submission process). I've found this also helps with not having to wait forever to get a response. Partly because I have so many submissions out there and partly because the more places you submit, the more variety of response time.
It DOES mean that I'm not being incredibly picky. Like, I'm submitting to a lot of places that don't pay or that are smaller. And I know that's not for everyone.
Anyway, I hope you at least find yourself with an abundance of creativity next year, even if you take a break from submitting. It's a lot to create and submit simultaneous. Sometimes it's nice to just focus on one or the other.
This sounds so frustrating but I am so glad to hear that you're continuing on. At the end of the day, you're an amazing poet and writer and nothing changes that.
That first acceptance poem is amazing! I totally know what you mean about response times when submitting. So much work goes into submitting and it sucks when you have to wait a year just to be rejected.
I've taken Megan Falley's Poems That Don't Suck workshop a few times and she encourages students to aim for 100 rejections a year as a way to encourage them to submit and also to get used to rejections (as a normal part of the submission process). I've found this also helps with not having to wait forever to get a response. Partly because I have so many submissions out there and partly because the more places you submit, the more variety of response time.
It DOES mean that I'm not being incredibly picky. Like, I'm submitting to a lot of places that don't pay or that are smaller. And I know that's not for everyone.
Anyway, I hope you at least find yourself with an abundance of creativity next year, even if you take a break from submitting. It's a lot to create and submit simultaneous. Sometimes it's nice to just focus on one or the other.
This is very helpful, thank you 😊😊