Confidence: My First Magazine Submission
September 15th, 2007
Whoo hoo! I just made my first submission to a magazine. It’s a poem and I know poetry isn’t my strong point. I also know this particular magazine (SageWoman) receives tons of poetry and with limited space it’s very unlikely mine will be chosen. It’s not the best and I’d just written it and it didn’t have enough emotion in it for me to feel satisfied. But then again I’m a perfectionist at times (example: starting a sentence with ‘but’ is not proper grammar but I don’t care. I’m not that bad at least.).
I’m just happy I did it. Honestly, I don’t have a lot of confidence if the paragraph above is anything to go by. If I didn’t like the feel of writing so much I probably wouldn’t have stuck with it through the years. I just love writing, it’s my very breath but it can be hard when you often worry that your aren’t good enough. I know I am a good, possibly an excellent, writer of sorts but knowing in your head and heart aren’t always enough. When I was younger I didn’t have a lot of encouragement. I wasn’t discouraged either unless you count one incident.
I will keep working on this and if I have my way, which I will, I will make tons more magazine submissions in my free time between blogging and serious writing. Who knows, the first time something of my gets accepted my be the kick in the pants I need.
