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Anyone else end up going to the Grinder (or Duotrope) a LOT more when their work suddenly reaches that point where people who submitted at the same time as you are getting rejections, but you haven't yet....
...and then you get a rejection one day later than the average most of the time. Or the average rejection time goes up and up the closer you get to it.
I don't know why I do it, it's not actually going to change anything. It's a bit like when you're desperate to be pregnant and keep doing tests, but it doesn't matter how many you do, it won't have any affect on the outcome.
I'm obsessed with duotrope. I seriously have to look at it every day. I have to check responses. I have to look at all my submissions. I have to daydream about all my submissions while looking at the list of all my pending submissions. And since I try to send out something every week the list can grow quite long but at the same time disappear all too quickly if a heavy storm of rejections comes my way.
But I know exactly what you are talking about. I had a story on submission at this one place for several months. I kept seeing that they were rejecting stories that had only been out half as long as mine. I saw what looked like two big rounds of rejections while my story was still pending. Then came the rejection. It looks like a hirer tier form but still a rejection. It frustrating. I've got on bunch of submissions in the red on duotrope. I just can't help myself. I have to go check duotrope again right now.