Butchered My Baby

My article. Thomas said be prepared to Butcher your baby. I went ahead and butchered it already despite my wife's approval of it's previous draft. I looked at it hard and did my best to cut the word count without being too vague. Knowing it will take around three months before I will know if it sold I didn't have the patience of getting it read again. I just need to move on as quickly as possible. Reading their requirements made me so nervous because I'm not a writer. Even as an artist they rejected me when I felt like drew better than their regular artist and asked for way less, all these complications just filled my head and made me feel weak.

Anyway I have to move on. I may not get it, but at least I've done something I've set out to do and not in any way half-assed. If it gets rejected I'll post the long version here. I was pretty proud of it in a technical and historical point of view. Writing it felt good because I really knew what I was talking about and it applied to both the game and historical reading. I wasn't confident they will accept a 5000 word article from me. It quickly grew to 7000 but I had to cut it as bare bones as possible. Those templates took hours to craft and are made by a tactical and historical gamer, which I feel gives it way more value. Every point is carefully considered and efficiently assigned. No one is as annal as a tactical gamer making historical templates. From my experience as a GM, my tactical options and tips were from the many mistakes I and my players have made, which should be very helpful to other GMs.

I didn't know that at the rate I was going i could have filled 20,000 words about the history of archery, tactics, encounters, and NPCs. I must be ready for disappointment even at how hopeful or confident I may be feeling now. It rejection is never as bad as it should feel, its usually worse.

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