How To Screw Up Getting Published

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You know you are a little too busy when you get published and don’t even realize it, but that’s exactly what happened to me last month.

Remember vaClaytion when I went to Clearwater Beach for those few days? Well, on the day I left a website called Pop Matters ran a feature story I wrote on their front page! Exciting eh? Due to some miscommunication I never realized that my story was out there in cyberspace being enjoyed by faceless masses kind enough to pound the tweet button.

Through a simple follow up message with one of the editors I discovered that my story had been in the top ten for 2 weeks. Also exciting even though I didn’t know. This short saga somehow brings closure to that whole “tree falling in the woods with no one around” dilemma. Yes, it makes a sound.

So now comes the fun part where I get to tell someone. I hope some of you will click over to check out my latest feature, a true combo of pop culture and the meaning of life as I am wont to do. The article is called Retirement of a Gen X Gamer, or My 8 Bit Childhood.

Pop Matters gets about 1 million visitors a month, so I’m happy to be on the board over there. Every credit helps, a fact I’m especially aware of as I type this post from a writer’s conference outside Chicago.

Then again, I’m gonna try to not stay so busy that I miss the good parts! Like my man Ferris Bueller said, “Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”