Note: This is a special blog post for the “My Best Advice to New Writers” blogfest organized by Peevish Penman.

If you want to be a prolific short story writer (Ray Bradbury wrote 400+ short stories during his career), you need to write, revise, and submit your short story. Then write the next short story and submit that. You need to keep on writing and submitting your short stories until you have so many manuscripts floating around in the slush piles that a handful of rejection slips in one day won’t faze you. If you’re going to be a short story writer, rejections will always be waiting for you like a dear old friend looking for a drink on payday.

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