If Your Submission Guidelines Are A 7-minute Read

Maybe you should consider cutting it in half by deleting your damn resume.

Terry L. Cooper
2 min readSep 21, 2021
Image by Waldkunst from Pixabay, edited by author

I scrolled and I scrolled and scrolled only to get to the bottom without locating the guidelines. So then I had to scroll and scroll and scroll back up again on my search. By then I was too pissed off to think of using Ctrl F and typing in “guidelines” to put me exactly where I need to be.

You’re supposed to be a writer, an editor, and a publisher. I’ve got news for you.

You suck at all three.

Once upon a time, I had a server that was so bad that I slid a nickel across the table and asked for change.

You owe me four cents, pal.

I don’t give a flying flip where you’re from, who you are, who you’re married to, and what type of dogs you do or do not own. That’s what friggin’ bios are for. Submission guidelines should be about submitting period.

Nothing else.

Not your old lady’s current hair color. How to this day the two of you are still mad at each other over not being able to settle on a proper name for your kid so at 33 he’s still referred to as Junior.

Get to the friggin’ point!

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Terry L. Cooper

Writer for this platform since June 2020. See my pinned post for links to locate me all over the WWW.