supernaturally unlucky
by Denise Sawicki on April 3, 2012
Back among some of the first posts I made to this blog I had one called "False Hope" and another called "Another Irritating Thing". Well the same kind of thing has happened numerous more times to Darrell, but in the realm of writing, not music. Darrell and Darrin decided they were going to be writers... They have written a bunch of stories now. A couple of times they got messages saying that a magazine (web-zine, or whatever) would have accepted their story but they can't because they are now closing down. One time they got what was apparently an acceptance notice, and the name of their story was placed on the schedule for publication.. only to find out later that it was placed on the schedule by "mistake" and they weren't going to publish it after all. There were more incidents like this than I can remember. Then just recently, Feb 1st, they received an email saying that their story was accepted to yet another publication. They've been checking the website obsessively. No updates. No further word from the guy who sent the "acceptance" when they wrote back asking when their next issue was coming out. I did some googling and couldn't really find evidence that the editor is even alive. Finally yesterday I found the co-editor's Facebook page, and oddly enough he had a public post just today saying that he is resigning from the magazine because *he* can't get in touch with the editor either! So nobody knows what happened to the guy.
Are Darrell and Darrin causing this stuff with their minds just because they want a publication so badly?
They are really depressed. I don't know what to do. I can't force someone to publish their stuff.
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Scott Hardie | April 8, 2012
Persistence pays off. Every published author can tell you about a long string of rejections and missed opportunities before they finally got lucky. Hang in there, Darrell and Darrin. Keeping a sense of humor about it could help. That disappearing editor who can't even be reached by his own staff? That really is "supernaturally unlucky." They could turn that experience into a funny story, something like this, if it helps to cheer them up.