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- From: jeff@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com (Jeffrey S. Freedman)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Ethics, publishing and the net
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.192841.20507@hilbert.cyprs.rain.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 19:28:41 GMT
- Article-I.D.: hilbert.1992Nov19.192841.20507
- References: <1992Nov15.231107.21506@netcom.com> <1992Nov16.054911.16903@math.ucla.edu> <BxtDF2.yK@unx.sas.com>
- Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Northwest, Beaverton Oregon
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- In article <BxtDF2.yK@unx.sas.com> sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden) writes:
- >but the ability to write does not correlate with the ability to get
- >published. There may be a lower cutoff, a level of quality below which
- >you cannot hope to be published, but if so it is very low indeed.
-
- Ah, there's hope for me yet!
-
- But then, what does it take to get published? Must one have a relative who is
- an editor? Or a body like Madonna's?
-
- I read a book on writing in which the author stated that he received 50
- rejections before he had his first book published, and that this was an average
- number. Yet, if each submission took a month, and if there were no
- simultaneous submissions, it would have taken him over four years before that
- acceptance came. Am I missing something here?
-
- -- Jeff Freedman
-