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Interview With Author
Kent Robinson
By AL J. Vermette
One of the great things about being a magazine publisher is
that I get to meet some wonderful writers along the way.
Kent Robinson is one such writer who is a horror fan and
writer who has now just released his newest work of terror
upon his readers.
AL: When did you first know that you wanted to become a writer?
Kent: When I was in the fourth grade, I remember my class was given a reading
assignment. We had to read a story about a group of outdoor types who were
canoeing down a river as they tried to escape a deadly bear that was pursuing
them. I can’t remember the title of the story or its author, and at this point I doubt I
ever will. I do know William Faulkner wrote a story called “The Bear,” but I don’t
think the story we read in the fourth grade was Faulkner’s, just because his prose
would have been a little bit above our level, if you know what I mean. And while I’
ve gone on to read quite a bit of Faulkner, I still have not managed to read “The
Bear,” so I have no idea what it’s about.
In any event, while reading this story in fourth grade, whatever it was called, I got
caught up in the sheer suspense and excitement of the plot (long before I knew
what a plot was). During one of the moments when I was totally engrossed in what
was happening, I remember thinking, almost idly as I was reading, that somebody,
somewhere had to write this tale I was enjoying so thoroughly. That was the first
moment in which I made such a connection. Somebody had to write it. This story
didn’t just spring into existence out of nowhere. This was a spontaneous learning
moment, something that no amount of textbooks or lecturing or training can ever
teach. It’s like a running back in football who makes moves during a game that no
coach could ever teach. My natural ability to make that mental connection, much
like the running back’s ability to evade tacklers on the field, came from an organic
or instinctive place.
So as a fourth grader, with pencil in hand, I began writing my own stories, crude
though they were. As the years went by, some of these stories were the products
of writing assignments for school. Not only did I enjoy writing stories more and
more as time went on, but the good grades and compliments I received from my
teachers spurred me on. Much of what I had to write in my later school years was
along the lines of research papers or opinion pieces, and I discovered I liked
writing those, too. This fell in line nicely with my realization that nobody could
graduate from high school or college and make a living as a short story writer, but
you could go on to get a paying job as a journalist or PR flack. So I did both after
graduating from Franklin College with a journalism degree: I was a reporter for The
Goshen News for three years and a public relations specialist for the University of
Southern California (USC) for almost ten. But I was always writing fiction in my
spare time, because that’s what I enjoyed the most. And on my thirtieth birthday I
sold my first story, “Rejection Slippage,” for either $5 or $15; I can’t remember
now. It was hardly any money at all, but inside it felt like a magnificent
achievement. As of today I have sold more than 130 stories.
Getting back to Faulkner briefly if I may: One reason I have never bothered to sit
down and read his story “The Bear” is that, if it is the story we read in the fourth
grade, I don’t want to be disappointed by a re-reading of it that doesn’t live up to
my expectations. I would rather cherish the dim but eternal memory of that story I
read so long ago. This reasoning has guided me for my entire reading life, as I
have never read the same story or book twice.
AL: Was the horror genre something you have always written about?
Kent: I haven’t written about the horror genre at all, at least not for publication. If
you mean written in, then the answer is no. My stories span almost every genre
except westerns. I even wrote a romance story once, although I suppose it could
also be considered a fantasy.
AL: Please tell us about your new book.
Kent: My new book, Why You Should Shudder: 27 Tales of Terror, collects stories
I wrote and saw published mainly during the 1990s and early 2000s. These tales
originally appeared in such long-gone small press publications as Dread: Tales of
the Uncanny and Grotesque, The Midnight Zoo, MindMares Magazine,
Crossroads…Where Evil Dwells, and The Midnight Gallery. A handful of the
stories in the book are original, unpublished works. The stories vary greatly in
length and style. The book is published by AuthorHouse (authorhouse.com),
which also published my first book, a collection of mainstream pieces called Bears
in the Punch Bowl and Other Stories. There are hardcover and trade paperback
editions of both my books available.
AL: I really like the title of the new book, how did you come up with that
title and why?
Kent: I mulled over what might be the best title for quite a while — months, in fact.
This was as I assembled the stories in book manuscript form. All I can remember
is how influenced I was by the word “shudder” in an anthology I read not too long
ago titled I Shudder at Your Touch. I don’t remember who edited this anthology,
but I do recall how the word “shudder” really hit home as a horrific, descriptive term
that says something no other word in the English language can duplicate. It has a
special power precisely because it’s not a word you see very often, at least not in
book titles.
In focusing on the word “shudder” in the title, I must take this opportunity to sing
the praises of Kelly Barrow, an artist for AuthorHouse who created the cover
artwork. Her cover conveys an image that should make readers shudder, which
means it’s perfect for my book. This was the first cover she designed for my book,
and I approved it immediately. As far as I was concerned, Kelly hit a grand-slam
home run her first time up to bat.
AL: Do you write in other genres other than horror?
Kent: Yes. As stated earlier, I’ve written and been published in every genre
except westerns. I had a science fiction story, “Reality Slough,” in one of the final
issues of Amazing Stories before it went belly up for good. A sad thing, as that
magazine had been around since the early 1900s. One of my favorite authors of
all time, Ray Bradbury, had a story in that same issue. His novel Something
Wicked This Way Comes is one of my favorite books of all time and one of only
two that I’ve ever read in a single sitting, the other one being The Old Man and the
Sea by Ernest Hemingway. I ran into Ray many times while living in California, and
those were fantastic experiences, let me tell you. He autographed numerous of his
books for me, and once I even got his autograph on the issue of Omni that
contained his short story “Trapdoor.” So it was a great honor to share the fiction
duties in the same Amazing as Ray.
I’ve also sold a lot of erotica or, as the less tolerant among us might say, porn.
Many of my stories, almost all under my own name, have appeared in Penthouse
Forum, Penthouse Hot Talk, Penthouse Letters, Amateur Hours, Small Tops,
Juggs, Oui, and a bunch of others. These have titles like “Big Fun Circus and
Freak Parlor,” “Never Enough for Nefertiti,” and “Sexual, Her Ass Meant.” I will say
this about the men’s magazines: They pay good money. Not to brag, but I
received nearly $2,000 for some of these stories. A handful of my erotic stories
appeared under a pseudonym only because some magazines were publishing me
so much that they didn’t want to make their readers think I was their only writer. So
I picked “Jack Newman,” because that combined the names of two of my favorite
actors, Jack Nicholson and Paul Newman.
In addition, I’ve sold mysteries, mainstream, and fantasy to publications like Red
Herring Mystery Magazine, Dark Starr, Words of Wisdom, and Mind in Motion.
AL: What are some of the books and movies growing up that may have
helped in making you the writer you are today?
Kent: Books, and stories, that have influenced me greatly include anything by
Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and Kurt Vonnegut. Ellison’s “A Boy
and His Dog,” “Jeffty Is Five,” and “Shatterday,” for instance, cannot be beat, and
those are only a few of his superb stories. He’s written hundreds. As already
mentioned, Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes made an impression
on me, because it focused on small-town Midwestern horror, and I’m from a small
Midwestern town. (So is Bradbury.) Other fantastic Bradbury writings include his
novel Fahrenheit 451 and stories like “The Small Assassin,” “The Dwarf,” and “A
Careful Man Dies.” In the case of the late Philip K. Dick, he was an interesting
man who wrote books that went beyond interesting: Puttering About in a Small
Land, VALIS, The Game-Players of Titan, and Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep? are but a few of his excellent novels. Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions
is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. I admire Vonnegut for being a guy the
critics loathed when he first began publishing. But he persisted, eventually
becoming world famous. These are all great writings by great writers. Revelations
by Barry N. Malzberg is another noteworthy, darkly hilarious book by a writer
whose huge body of work has helped to shape my style in significant ways.
One writer I’m into the past five years or so is the late Richard Laymon, who wrote,
I dunno, maybe forty books in the horror and suspense genres. His books are
fabulous: simple prose, he gets to the point, and the characters are realistic,
everyday people. Right now I’m reading the uncut re-release of his novel The
Woods Are Dark. It’s pretty creepy. Two other Laymon books that are favorites of
mine include Among the Missing, which I just loaned to a friend, and The Traveling
Vampire Show. Both of these books would make fantabulous movies, especially if
you could find an actress courageous enough to stand up to the feminists’
stranglehold on Hollywood content and do the ending of Among the Missing the
way it’s written, which is absolutely, unbelievably sexy. Needless to say, I’m also a
huge Stephen King fan. I just finished his latest novel, Duma Key, and it’s
fantastic, let me tell you. I’m also a huge fan of his stories “The Monkey” and
“Dolan’s Cadillac,” the latter of which is a classic revenge tale, and I like revenge
tales. (By the way, Harlan Ellison’s “The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge” is
another excellent revenge tale. And in my new book, “Murder of an Anatomy” is
certainly a revenge tale.) But my favorite single book of all time is the modern
mainstream classic The World According to Garp by John Irving. I laughed my ass
off while reading that book and learned a lot about the20 literary technique known
as foreshadowing. I should also say that I felt the movie version of Garp was very
good, too, and Robin Williams did a wonderful job of capturing the title character in
his performance. Williams even looked the way I pictured Garp as looking! Other
writers I enjoy a lot and who have influenced my thinking and my writing include
Carl Hiaasen, Lawrence Block, Robert Silverberg, Joe R. Lansdale, the late John
D. MacDonald, and the late Clifford D. Simak.
As far as movies are concerned, I’d have to say they have entertained me more
than they’ve influenced me. Two buddy movies that I rank among my favorites are
48 Hrs. starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy and Midnight Run with Robert DeNiro
and Charles Grodin. In the horror genre specifically, Jaws, Alien, and Halloween
are all top-notch. When I was a kid, lots of episodes of the TV show Jonny Quest
thrilled me quite a bit.
AL: What other books and projects do you have waiting in the wings?
Kent: Right now I’m organizing a final collection of stories for a third book. This
will not be a single-genre book, as the first two were, but will instead span a variety
of genres. I don’t have a title yet. Also, I have the bare bones of an idea for a
movie screenplay about a female cyborg. I picture — or perhaps I should say “I
fantasize” — that Jennifer Garner could be a star of this movie. The cyborg
character would be involved in many athletic situations, and Jennifer would be
perfect for the part. I really loved her in Alias, Daredevil, and Elektra, although
she should have worn a sexier, more revealing costume in Elektra, and the fight
scenes should have been longer and better. That costume she wore in Elektra is
what I mean by feminists having a stranglehold on Hollywood content. Show some
leg, man! And nothing wrong with a little bit of ass cheek, either. This is the same
problem that caused the blonde actress — I forget her name — to wear the dopey
costume she wore to play the lead character in Aeon Flux. I refused to even go
see that movie, I was so disappointed in her costume when I saw it on the
commercials. And it flopped. And Elektra flopped. You know, these movies would
do better at the box office if the female leads dressed in such a way as to play up
to the male audience a little bit. I thought we had matured enough as a society to
realize it’s cool to be sexy.
AL: Where can our readers find your new book?
Kent: At authorhouse.com or amazon.com. Or, if people want to get it at their
local bookstores, they can ask someone at the front desk to order it through
Ingrams.
AL: What would you like to say to all the young writers out there who seek
publication?
Kent: Read. Pick up books, pick up magazines, hold them in your hands, and
read. Absorb something that is beyond the words themselves. Use your
reasoning abilities to figure out why a sentence is written the way it is, why a
paragraph is structured the way it is, why the commas are where they’re at. Why
has what you’re reading made it into print. Don’t be a writer who thinks he has the
luxury of saying, “I’m a terrible speller, I’ve never been able to spell very well.”
Learn to spell, God damn it! It’s your job! Wanting to be a writer but not knowing
how to spell is like trying to be a bricklayer without knowing how to mix cement.
Turn off the TV and the iPod and look at something besides a computer screen.
Look at a printed page and give it the respect of your attention by reading it. In
doing this you will, by osmosis, gain much of what you need to know to write. Drink
a beer if you’re old enough, and expand your mind. Don’t let politics dictate your
writing. Poltics — especially liberalism — has been the ruination of society; don’t
let it ruin your writing.
Secondly, submit your stories over and over. If the first magazine rejects your
story, send it to the second one. If the second one rejects it, send it out to the
third one, immediately. And so on. Don’t let the story gather dust at home. Don’t
get depressed. The writer’s life is a largely lonely life, and rejection will make you
feel even lonelier. Big deal. Tell yourself that nobody else is doing anything more
important than you are. They’re going to parties or shopping or taking naps.
Boring stuff! Plow onward.
Kent Robinson
By AL J. Vermette
One of the great things about being a magazine publisher is
that I get to meet some wonderful writers along the way.
Kent Robinson is one such writer who is a horror fan and
writer who has now just released his newest work of terror
upon his readers.
AL: When did you first know that you wanted to become a writer?
Kent: When I was in the fourth grade, I remember my class was given a reading
assignment. We had to read a story about a group of outdoor types who were
canoeing down a river as they tried to escape a deadly bear that was pursuing
them. I can’t remember the title of the story or its author, and at this point I doubt I
ever will. I do know William Faulkner wrote a story called “The Bear,” but I don’t
think the story we read in the fourth grade was Faulkner’s, just because his prose
would have been a little bit above our level, if you know what I mean. And while I’
ve gone on to read quite a bit of Faulkner, I still have not managed to read “The
Bear,” so I have no idea what it’s about.
In any event, while reading this story in fourth grade, whatever it was called, I got
caught up in the sheer suspense and excitement of the plot (long before I knew
what a plot was). During one of the moments when I was totally engrossed in what
was happening, I remember thinking, almost idly as I was reading, that somebody,
somewhere had to write this tale I was enjoying so thoroughly. That was the first
moment in which I made such a connection. Somebody had to write it. This story
didn’t just spring into existence out of nowhere. This was a spontaneous learning
moment, something that no amount of textbooks or lecturing or training can ever
teach. It’s like a running back in football who makes moves during a game that no
coach could ever teach. My natural ability to make that mental connection, much
like the running back’s ability to evade tacklers on the field, came from an organic
or instinctive place.
So as a fourth grader, with pencil in hand, I began writing my own stories, crude
though they were. As the years went by, some of these stories were the products
of writing assignments for school. Not only did I enjoy writing stories more and
more as time went on, but the good grades and compliments I received from my
teachers spurred me on. Much of what I had to write in my later school years was
along the lines of research papers or opinion pieces, and I discovered I liked
writing those, too. This fell in line nicely with my realization that nobody could
graduate from high school or college and make a living as a short story writer, but
you could go on to get a paying job as a journalist or PR flack. So I did both after
graduating from Franklin College with a journalism degree: I was a reporter for The
Goshen News for three years and a public relations specialist for the University of
Southern California (USC) for almost ten. But I was always writing fiction in my
spare time, because that’s what I enjoyed the most. And on my thirtieth birthday I
sold my first story, “Rejection Slippage,” for either $5 or $15; I can’t remember
now. It was hardly any money at all, but inside it felt like a magnificent
achievement. As of today I have sold more than 130 stories.
Getting back to Faulkner briefly if I may: One reason I have never bothered to sit
down and read his story “The Bear” is that, if it is the story we read in the fourth
grade, I don’t want to be disappointed by a re-reading of it that doesn’t live up to
my expectations. I would rather cherish the dim but eternal memory of that story I
read so long ago. This reasoning has guided me for my entire reading life, as I
have never read the same story or book twice.
AL: Was the horror genre something you have always written about?
Kent: I haven’t written about the horror genre at all, at least not for publication. If
you mean written in, then the answer is no. My stories span almost every genre
except westerns. I even wrote a romance story once, although I suppose it could
also be considered a fantasy.
AL: Please tell us about your new book.
Kent: My new book, Why You Should Shudder: 27 Tales of Terror, collects stories
I wrote and saw published mainly during the 1990s and early 2000s. These tales
originally appeared in such long-gone small press publications as Dread: Tales of
the Uncanny and Grotesque, The Midnight Zoo, MindMares Magazine,
Crossroads…Where Evil Dwells, and The Midnight Gallery. A handful of the
stories in the book are original, unpublished works. The stories vary greatly in
length and style. The book is published by AuthorHouse (authorhouse.com),
which also published my first book, a collection of mainstream pieces called Bears
in the Punch Bowl and Other Stories. There are hardcover and trade paperback
editions of both my books available.
AL: I really like the title of the new book, how did you come up with that
title and why?
Kent: I mulled over what might be the best title for quite a while — months, in fact.
This was as I assembled the stories in book manuscript form. All I can remember
is how influenced I was by the word “shudder” in an anthology I read not too long
ago titled I Shudder at Your Touch. I don’t remember who edited this anthology,
but I do recall how the word “shudder” really hit home as a horrific, descriptive term
that says something no other word in the English language can duplicate. It has a
special power precisely because it’s not a word you see very often, at least not in
book titles.
In focusing on the word “shudder” in the title, I must take this opportunity to sing
the praises of Kelly Barrow, an artist for AuthorHouse who created the cover
artwork. Her cover conveys an image that should make readers shudder, which
means it’s perfect for my book. This was the first cover she designed for my book,
and I approved it immediately. As far as I was concerned, Kelly hit a grand-slam
home run her first time up to bat.
AL: Do you write in other genres other than horror?
Kent: Yes. As stated earlier, I’ve written and been published in every genre
except westerns. I had a science fiction story, “Reality Slough,” in one of the final
issues of Amazing Stories before it went belly up for good. A sad thing, as that
magazine had been around since the early 1900s. One of my favorite authors of
all time, Ray Bradbury, had a story in that same issue. His novel Something
Wicked This Way Comes is one of my favorite books of all time and one of only
two that I’ve ever read in a single sitting, the other one being The Old Man and the
Sea by Ernest Hemingway. I ran into Ray many times while living in California, and
those were fantastic experiences, let me tell you. He autographed numerous of his
books for me, and once I even got his autograph on the issue of Omni that
contained his short story “Trapdoor.” So it was a great honor to share the fiction
duties in the same Amazing as Ray.
I’ve also sold a lot of erotica or, as the less tolerant among us might say, porn.
Many of my stories, almost all under my own name, have appeared in Penthouse
Forum, Penthouse Hot Talk, Penthouse Letters, Amateur Hours, Small Tops,
Juggs, Oui, and a bunch of others. These have titles like “Big Fun Circus and
Freak Parlor,” “Never Enough for Nefertiti,” and “Sexual, Her Ass Meant.” I will say
this about the men’s magazines: They pay good money. Not to brag, but I
received nearly $2,000 for some of these stories. A handful of my erotic stories
appeared under a pseudonym only because some magazines were publishing me
so much that they didn’t want to make their readers think I was their only writer. So
I picked “Jack Newman,” because that combined the names of two of my favorite
actors, Jack Nicholson and Paul Newman.
In addition, I’ve sold mysteries, mainstream, and fantasy to publications like Red
Herring Mystery Magazine, Dark Starr, Words of Wisdom, and Mind in Motion.
AL: What are some of the books and movies growing up that may have
helped in making you the writer you are today?
Kent: Books, and stories, that have influenced me greatly include anything by
Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and Kurt Vonnegut. Ellison’s “A Boy
and His Dog,” “Jeffty Is Five,” and “Shatterday,” for instance, cannot be beat, and
those are only a few of his superb stories. He’s written hundreds. As already
mentioned, Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes made an impression
on me, because it focused on small-town Midwestern horror, and I’m from a small
Midwestern town. (So is Bradbury.) Other fantastic Bradbury writings include his
novel Fahrenheit 451 and stories like “The Small Assassin,” “The Dwarf,” and “A
Careful Man Dies.” In the case of the late Philip K. Dick, he was an interesting
man who wrote books that went beyond interesting: Puttering About in a Small
Land, VALIS, The Game-Players of Titan, and Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep? are but a few of his excellent novels. Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions
is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. I admire Vonnegut for being a guy the
critics loathed when he first began publishing. But he persisted, eventually
becoming world famous. These are all great writings by great writers. Revelations
by Barry N. Malzberg is another noteworthy, darkly hilarious book by a writer
whose huge body of work has helped to shape my style in significant ways.
One writer I’m into the past five years or so is the late Richard Laymon, who wrote,
I dunno, maybe forty books in the horror and suspense genres. His books are
fabulous: simple prose, he gets to the point, and the characters are realistic,
everyday people. Right now I’m reading the uncut re-release of his novel The
Woods Are Dark. It’s pretty creepy. Two other Laymon books that are favorites of
mine include Among the Missing, which I just loaned to a friend, and The Traveling
Vampire Show. Both of these books would make fantabulous movies, especially if
you could find an actress courageous enough to stand up to the feminists’
stranglehold on Hollywood content and do the ending of Among the Missing the
way it’s written, which is absolutely, unbelievably sexy. Needless to say, I’m also a
huge Stephen King fan. I just finished his latest novel, Duma Key, and it’s
fantastic, let me tell you. I’m also a huge fan of his stories “The Monkey” and
“Dolan’s Cadillac,” the latter of which is a classic revenge tale, and I like revenge
tales. (By the way, Harlan Ellison’s “The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge” is
another excellent revenge tale. And in my new book, “Murder of an Anatomy” is
certainly a revenge tale.) But my favorite single book of all time is the modern
mainstream classic The World According to Garp by John Irving. I laughed my ass
off while reading that book and learned a lot about the20 literary technique known
as foreshadowing. I should also say that I felt the movie version of Garp was very
good, too, and Robin Williams did a wonderful job of capturing the title character in
his performance. Williams even looked the way I pictured Garp as looking! Other
writers I enjoy a lot and who have influenced my thinking and my writing include
Carl Hiaasen, Lawrence Block, Robert Silverberg, Joe R. Lansdale, the late John
D. MacDonald, and the late Clifford D. Simak.
As far as movies are concerned, I’d have to say they have entertained me more
than they’ve influenced me. Two buddy movies that I rank among my favorites are
48 Hrs. starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy and Midnight Run with Robert DeNiro
and Charles Grodin. In the horror genre specifically, Jaws, Alien, and Halloween
are all top-notch. When I was a kid, lots of episodes of the TV show Jonny Quest
thrilled me quite a bit.
AL: What other books and projects do you have waiting in the wings?
Kent: Right now I’m organizing a final collection of stories for a third book. This
will not be a single-genre book, as the first two were, but will instead span a variety
of genres. I don’t have a title yet. Also, I have the bare bones of an idea for a
movie screenplay about a female cyborg. I picture — or perhaps I should say “I
fantasize” — that Jennifer Garner could be a star of this movie. The cyborg
character would be involved in many athletic situations, and Jennifer would be
perfect for the part. I really loved her in Alias, Daredevil, and Elektra, although
she should have worn a sexier, more revealing costume in Elektra, and the fight
scenes should have been longer and better. That costume she wore in Elektra is
what I mean by feminists having a stranglehold on Hollywood content. Show some
leg, man! And nothing wrong with a little bit of ass cheek, either. This is the same
problem that caused the blonde actress — I forget her name — to wear the dopey
costume she wore to play the lead character in Aeon Flux. I refused to even go
see that movie, I was so disappointed in her costume when I saw it on the
commercials. And it flopped. And Elektra flopped. You know, these movies would
do better at the box office if the female leads dressed in such a way as to play up
to the male audience a little bit. I thought we had matured enough as a society to
realize it’s cool to be sexy.
AL: Where can our readers find your new book?
Kent: At authorhouse.com or amazon.com. Or, if people want to get it at their
local bookstores, they can ask someone at the front desk to order it through
Ingrams.
AL: What would you like to say to all the young writers out there who seek
publication?
Kent: Read. Pick up books, pick up magazines, hold them in your hands, and
read. Absorb something that is beyond the words themselves. Use your
reasoning abilities to figure out why a sentence is written the way it is, why a
paragraph is structured the way it is, why the commas are where they’re at. Why
has what you’re reading made it into print. Don’t be a writer who thinks he has the
luxury of saying, “I’m a terrible speller, I’ve never been able to spell very well.”
Learn to spell, God damn it! It’s your job! Wanting to be a writer but not knowing
how to spell is like trying to be a bricklayer without knowing how to mix cement.
Turn off the TV and the iPod and look at something besides a computer screen.
Look at a printed page and give it the respect of your attention by reading it. In
doing this you will, by osmosis, gain much of what you need to know to write. Drink
a beer if you’re old enough, and expand your mind. Don’t let politics dictate your
writing. Poltics — especially liberalism — has been the ruination of society; don’t
let it ruin your writing.
Secondly, submit your stories over and over. If the first magazine rejects your
story, send it to the second one. If the second one rejects it, send it out to the
third one, immediately. And so on. Don’t let the story gather dust at home. Don’t
get depressed. The writer’s life is a largely lonely life, and rejection will make you
feel even lonelier. Big deal. Tell yourself that nobody else is doing anything more
important than you are. They’re going to parties or shopping or taking naps.
Boring stuff! Plow onward.
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