How to Get Published

How I Started to Make Things with Words and Then Got Magazines, Journals, and Publishers to Give Those Things a Shot

I dislike gimmicky titles, so I want to clarify right out the gate: I’m trying really hard to not be gimmicky. This article is paywalled, yes—and that’s because I’ve promised the kind people who pay to subscribe to me one extra article per month.

But I also had a barrel of fun putting this together. And for me, it doesn’t feel that gimmicky because this is the kind of stuff I wish I’d known when I started writing, but that I had to learn the hard way.

Also: since it’s the type of thing that people ask me about perpetually, but I’m not enormously interested in repeating over and over, I can ideally just point them to this article and then we can talk about the really important things, like what music they’re listening to or if they’ve read any George Saunders or what their opinion is on things like the practical relevance of saying “theosis” instead of “deification” even though deification is the most literal translation of the Greek theosis, and we only started subbing in theosis in the past few centuries because people were worried “deification” sounded too wonky.

Anyways: I wrote this as as if I was writing to myself about two or three years ago, before I ever had a single article published and no one cared what I had to say.

So: apologies for the paywall—but the support from readers is genuinely such a huge blessing to my family. So thankful for you all.

Withoutfurtherado: