Persistence in Creating Small Pieces, Big Visions

Tesol Quarterly, Goodness Ezine and The Raving Dove have accepted my work. Art and Prose magazine has taken interested in a story as well. (see below) This is wonderful news! I took advantage of the festivities of Lag B'Omer on the kibbutz, and did the Snoopy dance with Ivry quite aways from the bonfire. (he was a bit scared)

Then this morning, after chocolate pitas, ices, warm juice, and cake, hot dogs and fun, I asked myself why these pieces were accepted. The writing was crisper and clearer. The old me rambled - I'm so embarrassed by older pieces I wrote sometimes. In addition, they answered an editorial need of the publication. For the Tesol Quarterly I wrote an abstract of a reading unit I implemented last year based on the work I did for an online in-service teacher course on strategic reading, which will later become a chapter. For The Raving Dove, I wrote a nonfiction piece sadly inspired by last summer's war in Israel and the Goodness ezine features a poem of being judgemental based on a mother-daughter relationship. Art and Prose magazine found my fictional story of an American adapting to the Israeli army very interesting for their future publication and are waiting for the post edited draft. This will be my very own first publication of a fictional piece!

In light of these small but very momentous successes, I came to thinking about the following:

1.All of these pieces evolved out of work either I had done and/or continue to do.

2.I read somewhere that it is good to send out short(er) pieces in the beginning. Last November I wrote a Nano Novel and I haven't not revised it since! I just don't have the time. With short(er) pieces, you can see the project through to its fruition.

3.I also think it is a good idea to write about all that we are especially when just starting out in the writing world. Once publishing becomes a practicality and not just a snoopy dance, it's good to combine sending work to other places like major educational publications.

I am still trying to break into the educational markets and this small scale success shows me that perhaps it's not just yet the time. But, I'm persistent and won't give up. And I believe it is bound to happen. I upgrade cover letters and resumes, I research the product, website and move on.

And I continue to let my pieces fly to the world.

Well, the day's just started here and I got to go back to that hard core writing while Ivry's at the gan!

Happy Lag B'Omer !