Put Yourself Out There

 

“Fortune favors the bold.” If you REALLY want to get published or if it’s been your dram to get published in a particular market, then put yourself out there. Submit your manuscript, send out that query, or make that pitch. The only way to get one step closer to achieving your goal is actually taking that first step and get started.

 

When I first started out as a freelance writer, I kept thinking things like “I will never get published there.” Or “my writing is not good enough for that magazine."

 

When you are confronted with this kind of negative self-talk, you have two options:

 

1. Quit

2. Keep going and try

 

Me? I chose to keep going and try. I submitted manuscripts and sent queries. I may have received rejections, but at least I gave it a shot!

 

And you know what happened after I received those rejections? I tried again! Sometimes I even tried again at the same market. (Some of my acceptances for these markets came after they had rejected me once or twice.)

 

The only way you can get published is to ACTUALLY try to get published. Don’t feel too intimidated to submit your work. Get it out there and find a home for it somewhere.

 

Getting your work published is better than keeping it locked away in the desk drawer.

 

If you want to get published, take the leap and submit your work. And if you get rejected, submit your work again!

You'll write it and like it!

I thought I was going to take a break from the WIP. Do some research, talk with some screenwriters, maybe take my own crappy script through a critique session.

But I CAN'T stop writing this book. I CAN'T!! The words are pouring out and there's no holding them back. I don't know how, but in some way or another, I am writing these chapters for the screenwriting section of the book! My muse pretty much whacked me with a 2x4 and sneered, "Oh, you missed something in your last chapter. Boo-hoo. Get it in there and keep going!"

So that's what I'm doing! I'm just...going to keep going. I'm doing the research like crazy. Reading EVERYTHING I can find that has to do with scriptwriting and the topics covered in my book. I am constantly on the hunt for more screenwriter blogs to read, just so I can learn from them. All this while writing the chapters that I need to write.

And even if I'm not happy with the chapters, I KNOW I can fix them later. I have given myself until the end of February to finalize the manuscript. I'm sure I can get enough done in time to feel confident about the screenwriting section. I'm still set on getting my own script critiqued, though. Maybe doing THOSE revisions will help me identify with my chapters better. Since it IS a book about making revisions!

Well, anyway. No more whining. No more doubting. No more complaining. Onward and upward!