So I am getting back into the fiction game after many years on the sidelines. I wrote a bunch of short stories in and around my college years, and for various life reasons, fell away from writing and didn't make much effort to get anything published. Lately I've embarked on writing new stuff, but recently took a look at some of the older stories and realized that they're not so bad, for the work of a young pup. The only problem is, well, they were written in the nineties. People watch videocassettes. No one owns a cell phone or goes on the Internet. And so on.
Obviously, reading a story written in the nineties is not, in and of itself, confusing. But reading one published as new work in a contemporary journal? That might be. My question: would journals consider publishing work that is obviously out of date? I really don't want to "update" them — they are what they are —*so am wondering if they may yet see the light of day, or stay permanently relegated to the drawer.
Thanks everyone!
Obviously, reading a story written in the nineties is not, in and of itself, confusing. But reading one published as new work in a contemporary journal? That might be. My question: would journals consider publishing work that is obviously out of date? I really don't want to "update" them — they are what they are —*so am wondering if they may yet see the light of day, or stay permanently relegated to the drawer.
Thanks everyone!
