How To Write Fiction

Funny enough, the same advice about querying magazines held true in 1892 as it does now.

From Atalanta Magazine, Volume 6, (published way back in 1982) introducing a fiction contest, the editor writes:

“A… class of would-be contributor is the utterly silly person who thinks that it would be great fun to have something in print, and imagines that this desirable result can be attained with no labour or previous study. On a certain summer’s afternoon, my co-editor and I were startled by hearing violent giggles outside the office door.

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