Submit or Surrender? Why Can't I Take My Own Writing Advice?

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“I give myself very good advice,” sobs a despondent Alice in Disney’s 1951 Alice in Wonderland. “But I very seldom follow it.”

In a recent essay, the second chapter of My Future Shock Hell!, I gave you, gentle reader, some very good advice on the business of ‘rejection-proofing your soul’ when it comes to submitting a project ‘cold’ - that is, surrendering your hard-won comic script, screenplay, or novel to someone under no obl...