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[kippurbird]

Dear world in general.

Why is it that I have a 99% acceptance rate for my academic papers but a 100% rejection rate for my fiction? Are you trying to tell me that I need to publish non-fiction? Or what? I'm just curious.

Kippur.


So, another one of my academic papers got accepted. This one for the American Literature Association. It's going to be in Downtown San Fran. So hi peoples there again!

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[smurasaki.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!


(No explanation on the fiction thing, though. Other than that it seems to be really hard to get fiction published.)

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

It is! But really... either everyone else's paper was really bad or no one else really applied.

[authoressarktos.livejournal.com]

Why is it that I have a 99% acceptance rate for my academic papers but a 100% rejection rate for my fiction? Are you trying to tell me that I need to publish non-fiction? Or what? I'm just curious.

Kippur, considering how popular Eragon is, it isn't really that surprising that publishers don't know good writing when they see it. On that note, maybe you should give non-fiction a try if you get that much good feedback for it. I'm sure (and I know I'm not the only one) that your book sporkings could be channeled into a literary career of some sort ^^

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

I am working on -dabbling- with the idea of non-fiction book like ness. I have yet to decide on the exact topic.

[dryaunda.livejournal.com]

So when will you be visiting my proud city?

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

March 15th for Berekely. May 25ish for Downtown. :D

[spoofmaster]

How does one go about getting academic papers published, anyway?

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be presenting the paper at the conference. But what you do is there's a call for papers sent out to universities or if you on a certain mailing list or what not.

It's basically a "This is a conference for such and such and this is our topic". You send in a paper abstract which is "This is what I want to write my paper on." If they like it, they'll say "We've accepted the paper". Then you have to write it.

At the conference you're on a panel or just by yourself and you read the paper to people and sound really smart.

[dove-cg.livejournal.com]

You clearly need to write fiction involving getting academic papers accepted and conferences visited. I think that's what the universe is telling you. ;)