>consider myself a short story writer if anything >never

You go, anon!

This was a sincere post.

Also post some of your shitty poetry.

I know that feel. Though I tend to crank out several at once and not even review them.

Well let's see some!

>spend months writing and revising a short story, consider it my best work
>send it out to several lit mags, all reject it
>meanwhile a story I wrote in two hours and spent only a few minutes revising gets picked up on the second try
>it's mediocre and I'd much rather have the other one be my first publication
I don't know how to feel.

>>7465255
What lit mags?

>be walking a round my daily life
>visions of stunning prose and poetry flow through my head
>countless ideas for novels stem from my daydreams
>go home and write them out
>unhappy with execution and so bin them

I want off of this ride. Some day I will be satisfied with my work.

>>7465164
Sounds like you're winning, OP.

>>7466624
Jersey Devil Press

I like writing poetry to short stories. But I like reading novels to both.

>>7465164
I know that feel OP
>torture myself writing long-thought stories
>it's mostly shit
>one day I give in and I try to write really fast without thinking about anything to easily emulate stream of consciousness
>it's still shit but it was fun as hell

>>7465255
Shit, this is how my first publication went too. I had one that I thought was actually good, and another I pared down from a chapter of my novel just to fit the length guidelines of a few places.

The hacked-up novel fragment got published and the coherent short story I slaved over has yet to find a taker.

>http://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/

Just wanna share with you guys a cool resource for when you're looking for places to publish your stuff. Of course, duotrope would be better, but it's not a free service anymore.

>>7465164
Fuck yeah. I write poetry I don't like either. I also record music that I don't like and that's also fun.