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Second-guessing the story's ending...

12/22/2020

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I collected a couple more rejections the past few weeks but still have 8 pieces out to different journals.  Also got some good feedback on one story.  The editors liked the piece but not the ending.  I have a weakness for happy endings and in this case, I might have got an acceptance if I had "killed my darlings" as the saying goes.

The feedback continued that I should consider submitting the piece to a women's magazine instead of a literary journal, saying "This is no shade...these can be well-paying markets."

I sometimes buy these magazines to see what fiction they are publishing.  Sometimes quite good stuff (Redbook, for example.)  And sometimes stories like the one I wrote, where the author almost, but not quite, gets it right.  

So I can choose to keep the new ending, where the eccentric character gets back on her feet and is given a fluffy kitten, and submit it to Women's World or similar.  Or I can revert back to the ambiguous ending and keep trying to place the piece in a journal.

As I think about this, I'm afraid that 2020 may have given me a bias toward fluffy-kitten endings!
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    I've always scribbled during, oh, math class.  So decided to 'have a go'.

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