Waiting game...first non-fiction submission

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I submitted a non-fiction memoir to a literary magazine last night. I realize it can take weeks for an editor to approve or reject your story. This is my first time submitting something to a magazine so I am trying to have patience LOL. I had no idea that waiting on that email from the editor could be so nerve racking! I kept waking up last night thinking about it. The sad thing is I just sent it last night so could have weeks to hear something. Do they ever not respond? I can only imagine when I finish my novel and send it out, I may never sleep again!
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Weeks? Try months! Yeah, the wait can be nerve-wracking. I've found that the best cure is to start working on something else. Good luck!
 
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Hate to quibble but sooner or later you'll need to get the terminology correct. If it's non-fiction, it's not a short story. Short stories are fiction (as are novels, so referring to a fiction novel is redundant).

A short, non-fic piece might be an essay, vignette, memoir or narrative (narratives may also be fiction though) and probably a host of other terms that escape me at the moment, but it's not a short story.

Good luck with it and MeowGirl is quite right, keep busy and turn off your email alert. ;)
 
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