Submission:Step One - Preparing for Submissions
The quest to submit my manuscript is teaching me how to step out the process. Now some of this may seem very basic to many of you. My submissions in the past were products created for someone else. They were assignments to make someone, someplace, or some event look good. The road to creative writing is a different plane from my old writing endeavors. Much of my writing in the past had to be succinct, void of emotion, instructional, and often just plain informative. I wrote in a world of "turn around" deadlines, proofreaders, corporate style guides, and final sign offs. Working on my own in the creative writing field is like landing on Mars and it's filled with land mines. First of all, the ideas are mine. They do not attempt to be aligned with any corporate goals. They are the product of my imagination. My fiction and poetry tries to entertain or evoke emotion. I want to give the reader a place to go that is different from their current space. The process of submiss