tips for a young writer?
- Asked by kurtrheewriting
send your writing to as many journals and magazines as you can. when they send you rejection letters, burn them. send out more material. after you get accepted by quite a few of them (100+…spend years doing this), then consider putting together a book manscript and try hustling it to independent press companies. They’re the ones most likely to work with up-and-coming poets.
The best advise I ever got was to revise. I used to never revise. If you revise a poem well enough, it could easily turn into a poem that lives on until the end of humanity and the act of reading.
Rejection letters are humerous. Tape them on your fridge.
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