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By Anonymous - 13/03/2010 13:43 - United Kingdom

Today, I realized that not only am I still an unpublished author, but I can't even get an FML posted after submitting several in the last year. FML
I agree, your life sucks 39 300
You deserved it 7 681

Same thing different taste

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Who knew you FML mods had a soft spot for whiny failures? It warms my heart really.

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Oh, cry me a river.... Karma wins again. Isn't irony a bitch? LOL

rauj13 0

Who told you a split infinitive is bad grammar?

Somebody call the waaaaaambulance. shut up and stop spamming you pansy. do you realize how many people use this site and submit fml's each day?

QueenOfStars 0

ugh mine won't upload either! like really?!

boatkicker 4

Oh, come on OP. What do you write? Age, Genre, Length? If you write short stories of just about any age-range and genre, keep looking for magazines and anthologies. There are tons of them. I would guess, however, that you are a novel writer. 1) Have you actually submitted? You'd be surprised how many people are upset about not being published even though they've never submitted. If not, you need to get on that. 2) In your rejections, what did they say was wrong with it? Fix that. They know what they're talking about, for the most part. 3) Are you working with an agent? If not, that might help. 4) It might be time to edit it again. It may even be time to re-write the entire thing from scratch. 5) If all else fails, shelf that one and write something else. 6) Don't let rejections get you down. Everyone gets rejected. I don't know an author who hasn't been.

Maybe your FMLs and stories weren't good enough. Have you tried acting? You seem to be a very dramatic fellow.

An oxymoron is defined as a "compact paradox" and since this is clearly not compact, because it's a story, it's not an oxymoron. So Sirin how do you like that English lesson? (But this FML is extremely ironic, but that's why it was selected in the first place).

I can't get any published either. I think it's rigged HA

Weh, weh. You should have published this FML serially to keep drawing us in.