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Looking Back at Stories Past and Lessons Learned
Glimpsing progress as a writer
I’m sauntering down memory lane looking back at some of my early stories and reflecting on lessons learned.
I wrote this story hoping to get into my favorite pub, the now sadly defunct P.S. I Love You. They gave me the classic “It’s not you, it’s me” brush off but I managed to place it elsewhere. I did eventually publish in PSILY eight times before they shuttered in May 2021.
I don’t know why they rejected this one. I thought it was a good fit. Reading it now I see various places I’d tighten it up a bit and change the language, but it’s still a good read. If you too have contemplated martial murder you’ll probably enjoy it.
This old story has gotten ten external reads over the last couple of days. I really want to know how people are stumbling across it. Are they googling “kill my husband”?
I just googled and it does show up on the second page of results. Look at this chart. This little story with lifetime earnings of $7.16 is regularly getting…
