Trying the same publication over and over again

Drey of Boon said:

I figure the editors are only human, and if they've flat-out rejected me ten times already they're bound to have preconceptions of my eleventh story when they see my name on it

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Drey of Boon said:

I like to see some kind of upward trajectory in my rejections (either takes longer to come through or comes with personalised comments) to keep submitting to the same place because I figure the editors are only human, and if they've flat-out rejected me ten times already they're bound to have preconceptions of my eleventh story when they see my name on it. But I don't submit often enough to really think I'm clogging up anyone's slush pile too severely so I usually start at the top (Clarkesworld etc) and work my way down, because you never know.

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radiocure said:

Speaking from both sides of the table (as the managing editor one of the oldest lit mags in the country), I can tell you that it's totally normal to submit to the same place multiple times. If they want you to stop, they'll tell you to stop. If they have anything like a large volume of submissions, they're probably not remembering you from submission to submission, frankly. There are simply too many names crossing the editors' vision each day, and unless they end up taking a piece from someone, they'll only really remember the best and the worst.

I'll get this wrong, but someone told that me the average number of times successful authors in the journal One Story have submitted before being accepted is seventeen.

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