As someone who’s read slush before (not for BHP, for Flash Fiction Online) and as someone who subs to pro markets fairly regularly and has their MFA in fiction, and who teaches fiction writing at the university level, I just want to offer my thoughts. Hopefully they’re helpful.
Thank you for giving me this opportunity to talk in-depth about my writing. I guess all writers start out on a similar path to some degree and have to overcome self-doubt, especially when it comes to dealing with knock backs and rejections. In the beginning I didn’t plan on becoming a writer, in fact my first love had always been art.
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