Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Define amateur

Family Circle is sponsoring a fiction contest but you have to be an amateur to enter. What does that mean? Like Beginnings sponsors a contest but asks that if one has a list of credits and awards to not enter. Well, I have a list of credits but to some, they might not be credits that matter.

Am I an amateur?

Am I a beginning writer? Or am I an emerging one? And what publication credit qualifies me as "arrived"?

Who decides this stuff and who gave them this authority? Why is being published in x magazine more important than being published in y? Why? Why? Why?

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