Call For Submissions — The Highs And Lows
The further I get into my life and career, the more I notice that my journey comes in waves. Some of these waves are high and exhilarating — the thrill of leaving home for university, my first big contract, watching my daughter graduate — while others are so low I feel closer to underground than above it. Losing all of my scholarships when I dropped out of high school comes to mind. Not having any food when my daughter’s mother and I moved out on our own and having my uncle buy us groceries is another low point. The constant round of rejections when querying agents; all of this has made my life as unpredictable as the ocean itself.
Sometimes these highs and lows occurred at the same time. The birth of my daughter happened when I was most distant from my unapproving family. Those conflicting emotions were hard to decipher as a teenager and I struggled with my mental health, although I would never have articulated it that way back then.
But of course, this is about you. What have been the highs and lows in your own lives? Have they intersected? Have the highs outweighed the lows? Think life and career and let us know.
Same rules as always:You can submit to this or ANY of our past writing prompts. Just scroll through our previous newsletters. They’ll be marked “Call for Submissions.”If you’re already a writer for CRY, go ahead and submit.Be as creative as you want in your submissions. As long as you stick to the topic, we’ll consider it.Just because you submit doesn’t mean we’ll post. If you haven’t heard back from us in three days, consider that a pass.[image error]Call For Submissions — The Highs And Lows was originally published in CRY Magazine on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
