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| Aug 15, 2018 at 17:52 | comment | added | Jules | Another point along similar lines: don't assume that because the turnaround time was fast, nobody looked at the work. When Jim Baen's Universe was just getting started, they used to have a process (I don't know whether they still do or not) where, if you requested it, the editor would give a (brief) reason why they rejected a piece. For the story I submitted to them, the reason was that the second sentence that I'd hoped to provide a hook had struck the editor as self-contradictory, and that pulled them out of the story and they stopped reading. So they read 20 words out of 7,000, total. | |
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