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Topic: Remember the excitement of the first byline?
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| Righter | Posted – 9/24/2007 7:46:39 PM | show profile Mine was a first person essay that I submitted to a local magazine...I was still in college and I remember sending it, taking a nap before my next class, then waking up an hour later to find that the editor had already responded saying she wanted to buy it. I tried calling EVERYONE because I was soooo giddy and giggly and no one would pick up their phones! Many many bylines later I find that a) an editor getting back to me within an hour doesn't happen often, b) I wouldn't say I've gotten jaded (I always love seeing my name and work in print) but you get a bit more used to it and c) family and friends no longer read every single one of my articles...though they better read every page of my book when it comes out!!! (still working on revising the first draft haha) What was your first byline? What's changed and what've you learned since? |
| recovering_jersey_girl | Posted – 9/25/2007 11:57:42 AM | show profile | email poster My first byline was for a trade magazine, like 8 years ago now. My first byline that really excited me, though, was The New York Times. ...Just something about seeing my name in that distinctive "Times" font made me want to bounce up and down and do the happy dance with my dog (always a willing happy-dance partner, I've found). |
| Righter | Posted – 9/25/2007 3:57:40 PM | show profile I agree. I'd be pretty excited about that byline myself! |
| JimmyG | Posted – 9/25/2007 6:24:02 PM | show profile | email poster I'd been published in the high school and community college newspaper but the first time I really got excited was when I started writing a weekly column in the local suburban newspaper that ran with my picture. I remember my dad bringing a copy folded up in his pocket to show his fellow laborers with great pride at the warehouse in which he worked. I think that was the best part of it for me. |
| seeattleme | Posted – 9/25/2007 8:40:00 PM | show profile I agree. Seeing your name right under William Safire's in the TOC of the New York Times is, well, better than sex. better than most things. And it changed my life. |
