{"id":2837,"date":"2015-07-12T04:36:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T04:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/If-the-magazine-youre-submitting-to-gets-4000-submissions-a-year-and-publishes-40-your-chances-are-1-in-100-right"},"modified":"2015-07-12T04:36:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T04:36:32","slug":"if-the-magazine-youre-submitting-to-gets-4000-submissions-a-year-and-publishes-40-your-chances-are-1-in-100-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/07\/12\/if-the-magazine-youre-submitting-to-gets-4000-submissions-a-year-and-publishes-40-your-chances-are-1-in-100-right\/","title":{"rendered":"If the magazine you&#8217;re submitting to gets 4000 submissions a year and publishes 40, your chances are 1 in 100, right?"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>If the magazine you&#8217;re submitting to gets 4000 submissions a year and publishes 40, your chances are 1 in 100, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wrong. If you submit something as bad as 90% of the people submitting do, your chances of getting published are zero. If your story is decent and falls within the magazine&#8217;s invisible boundaries, your chances may be 1 in 20, or even 1 in 4. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; (paraphrased from) Damon Knight, <em>Creating Short Fiction<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretty much the point I make in <em>The Well-Presented Manuscript<\/em>, and I&#8217;ve heard variations on it from several professional editors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#shortfiction<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        If the magazine you&#8217;re submitting to gets 4000 submissions a year and publishes 40, your chances are 1 in 100, right?<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/07\/12\/if-the-magazine-youre-submitting-to-gets-4000-submissions-a-year-and-publishes-40-your-chances-are-1-in-100-right\/\">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":[68],"tags":[94,88],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837"}],"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=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}