Admittedly, it didn't take long for Google to find me a few magazine web sites where I looked up what I would have flipped through a copy of the magazine for back in my could-afford-subscriptions days, so now I have snailmail addresses and formatting instructions ... but does one include a cover letter, as for a resume? Just "gee-I've-never-done-this" stuff like that.
And, of course, I could use suggestions for magazines to send it to beyond the few big names I can think of on my own, just to save a trip to the library to look at that big book of magazine titles and their requirements that I know exists but am momentarily blanking on the name of, but that's not the "how do I do this" part, that's just laziness.
And yes, in my head "find out how" implied "ask my pro author friends". That'll include, "do I send it just like this, or should I try to lengthen it from a vignette (more like a scrap-of-an-idea) to short-story size?"
Basically, I have to get over my "never done this" insecurity. I've thought about trying to get fiction published before, but most of my thinking has been about how/what to write, not what happens next. (Which makes the fact that this was something I just dashed off before a nap kind of ironic, but hey, God is an iron. Wow. I think I've spent more time writing this comment than I did the piece itself.)
So yeah, in fandom as long as I've been, and never submitted anything to a magazine before. Late bloomer, I guess?
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Seriously, you coud get into a quality fanzine *easy*, but I'd try professional stuff, first.
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And, of course, I could use suggestions for magazines to send it to beyond the few big names I can think of on my own, just to save a trip to the library to look at that big book of magazine titles and their requirements that I know exists but am momentarily blanking on the name of, but that's not the "how do I do this" part, that's just laziness.
And yes, in my head "find out how" implied "ask my pro author friends". That'll include, "do I send it just like this, or should I try to lengthen it from a vignette (more like a scrap-of-an-idea) to short-story size?"
Basically, I have to get over my "never done this" insecurity. I've thought about trying to get fiction published before, but most of my thinking has been about how/what to write, not what happens next. (Which makes the fact that this was something I just dashed off before a nap kind of ironic, but hey, God is an iron. Wow. I think I've spent more time writing this comment than I did the piece itself.)
So yeah, in fandom as long as I've been, and never submitted anything to a magazine before. Late bloomer, I guess?