Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
This is a guest post by Jenna Glatzer.
You finally broke into a market you’d been dying to break into. Some Big Magazine has hired you to write an 800-word article for their front-of-the-book, and you’re ecstatic! You work hard as can be, proofread like crazy, and send it in, sitting by your inbox and waiting for the note back telling you how fabulous your article is, and by the way, where have you been all their lives? They want you to write all the articles in the magazine from now on!
But days turn into weeks, and no response. You check in and get “Thanks for the article! Sorry I haven’t had time to look at it yet. I’ll get back to you as soon as I have a chance to read it.”
Hmm. Is this the same editor who told you the article absolutely HAD TO be in in 10 days so it could make it into the September issue? How come she now has weeks to sit on it? Grumblegrumble. You could have spent more time researching if you had all this extra time.
But, you tell yourself, that’s okay. She’s busy. Maybe there’s been a scheduling change. I’m sure everything is fine.
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