{"id":21341,"date":"2014-12-30T23:12:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T23:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/So-short-stories-this-year"},"modified":"2014-12-30T23:12:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T23:12:01","slug":"so-short-stories-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2014\/12\/30\/so-short-stories-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"So, short stories this year."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>So, short stories this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve written approximately 22, depending how you count ones that aren&#8217;t completely finished and ready for submission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twelve (including one or two written last year) were published in a collection by HDWP Books (<em>Good Neighbours and Other Stories<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve made 44 submissions to pro\/semipro magazines and anthologies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve had 20 form rejections, 14 personal rejections, and an acceptance. I currently have 8 pieces out on submission. (I know that doesn&#8217;t add up. I&#8217;m just quoting what the Submission Grinder tells me. Not sure what&#8217;s happened to the other one.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s harder than I&#8217;d realised. There really are a limited number of slots each month, and a lot of good writers competing for them. But I will get there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> #shortstorychallenge \u00a0\ufeff<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        So, short stories this year.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2014\/12\/30\/so-short-stories-this-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[153],"tags":[94,154],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}