You never can tell...
Who knew that a story I originally wrote my junior year of high school would get published 17 years later? I'm still amazed I even wrote that story, especially since I don't really consider myself a short story writer. Writing literary analysis essays is my first love actually. But I somehow managed to pull out a dark piece, probably because I allowed my thoughts to flow and wasn't concerned with over-thinking in any way. What's more, I still have the originally copy, which was collected into a book with writing from my other classmates.
Enter 2007. I took short story writing when I went back to college and pulled out "The Zoo", intent on rewriting it, and I'm glad I did. To this day, it's still one of my favourite pieces of writing, which is why, 3 years later I choose to pull out my story and embark on yet another series of rewrites in July 2010 (I'd graduated college in '08), where "The Zoo" underwent another 7 revisions, followed by magazine searches and research.
And now, thank you Underneath the Juniper Tree, my story has found a home.
So keep at it, no matter how long it takes, whether days, months, or years.
Because you never know :)
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