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happilylenaaa.bsky.social

Mediocre Maven. MA in Fiction at the University of Southern Mississippi. Managing Editor of Folklore Review. https://www.folklorereview.com/

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12/100

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11/100 🫶🏻

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Happy Valentine’s Day~

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I passed my thesis defense and now have an MA🗣️

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10/100 ✍🏻

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On it 🫡

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my creative process: wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf !!!OMG!!! wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf wtf #art

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Short-listed —> Rejected The grind continues: 9/100

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I did my last reading of my MA degree tonight and was gifted this beautiful rose from a sweet friend ☺️

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!!!

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92 left 🐛

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Despair.

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7, 93 left.

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Happy to share my micro piece “Under the Oracle Tree” will be in the upcoming issue of the Quarter(ly)!

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I'm sharing this for the first time in this space. Hoping it finds people who understand.

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Oh!

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This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

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6! 94 left!

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At night, a mother writes.

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95 more to go.

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4! 96 more! (reframing rejections to be like, “oh, okay, so this piece might need a bit more work after all. Let me take a look after some time away to refresh these eyes of mine”).

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I forgot this one from a few weeks ago. That’s 3 down, 97 to go✌🏻

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2 down, 98 to go!

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1 down, 99 to go.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Out here doing the 100 rejection challenge, so if any journals see my work in their queue, definitely reject them. Definitely. (This is reverse psychology—take my little fics please).

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Doing that sweet, sweet submission grind.

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Thank you SO much to @pitheadchapel.bsky.social and most especially to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, whose support of this story has meant so much <3 And thanks to @smokelong.bsky.social's awesome classes, where I first wrote a draft of this piece!