I mean, not online, that does not really count, because anyone can be published online.

I ask this because I am about to be published for the very first time in the December 2015 issue of Railfan and Railroad Magazine with an article on the Obscure Navajo Mine Railroad in the 4 corners area of New Mexico.

I ask this because it seems like everyone is publishing stuff online, but in your opinion, do you think it is much harder to get published in print (I.E. Books, Magazines, etc) than it is to just to throw stuff up on a webpage?

 

I've given up on traditional methods and am planning on self-publishing my first book through Amazon.

 

Do "Letters to the Editor" count?
Boston Glove (Only once. They're tough.)
Boston Herald (more than a dozen times)
Providence Journal - probably close to 100
Pawtucket Times (hometown paper - a few times)
Several neighborhood papers

The Advocate (once - a letter about John Kerry and same-sex marriage)

I've found some of my letters published in several city and state newspapers. If I read a story that I feel strongly about, I'll often peel of a Letter either to the newspaper of where the article was focused, or the hometown newspaper of the person(s) listed in the story. I usually don't follow up since some papers sometimes take weeks to publish letters regarding a certain story. But one time I was doing a search and found my letters listed on the site of the newspaper (in several states) I mailed it to. Some papers only put online those letters they publish in print. Others will print some, but post online letters since that way, they can let more people be heard, without the expenses that go along with putting out a newspaper.

And CONGRATULATIONS on being published!

That's my ten cents, my two cents is free
A nuisance, who sent, You sent for me?

I wonder if Eminem's really would melt in my mouth.

 

Yes, I've been published, and, fortunately, it didn't make me as ignorant and arrogant as you. Far better writers than I have never been published. Getting published takes about as much luck as it does talent. Different publishers are looking for different things and timing is everything. Of course, commercial success is the ideal for most, but there are many, many talented writers who will never be published or will be published without gaining widespread recognition or financial rewards.

The opposite is equally true - crappy writing can sometimes bring great commercial success... think Fifty Shades of Grey and scores of celebrity autobiographies.

Many talented writers faced long stretches of rejection before finding success. James Joyce's The Dubliners was rejected 22 times before it was published; Stephen King's Carrie - 30 times; Harry Potter - 12 times; Gone With The Wind - 38 times; Anne Frank's The Diary of A Young Girl - 15 times. It took Gertrude Stein 22 years of writing and submitting poems before one was published. Both Beatrix Potter and Marcel Proust had to pay for it themselves in order to have their work published.

You're quite condescending in regards to those whose writing appears most often online... "doesn't really count"... "anyone can be published online". As for "throwing stuff up on a webpage", I don't suppose it is any more or less difficult than throwing stuff up on paper or a word processing program.

I wonder if you held the same opinions before you got an obscure article about an obscure mining railroad published.

I'm sure there are many folks who consider throwing something up on Railfan and Railroad Magazine to be far less impressive than being published in The New York Times.

Of course, you will need the services of a good editor to have anything published... an editor might have advised you that "ExpEditor" is spelled with just one "i", and might have corrected the multiple punctuation errors in your post.

I'm just sayin'.

Good for you! You've joined the ranks of Beatrix Potter and Marcel Proust!

 

Don't mind her, dude. She does that a lot lately.

 

I have had two magazine articles published, fourteen newspaper columns, and I have filled four scrap books with letters to the editor of various newspapers and opinion journals, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, National Review, Glamour, and Liberty.

The_Expiditor said they do not count, but I have also posted about 75 book reviews on Amazon. They are fun to write. The books are fun to read.

 

But there is a bit of a difference, wouldn't you agree? You do have quite an admirable list in your first statement. But even then, you probably submitted many more that weren't chosen for publication, correct? (I know I have.) So, I think his point is, some other body considering your writing worthy of including in their publications.

 

Should it NOT be harder to get a book, a magazine article, etc. compared to a blog you can open in 30 seconds?

 

I have published articles in scientific and technology journals.

 

I think it's pretty clear that the question isn't directed towards "scientific and technology journals"

 

Being published in scientific and technological journals is very impressive.

 

I have been co creator of 2 State Laws that are on the books.

 

It depends on the journal. There are plenty of journals that are rubbish.

 

deviousdave impresses me as someone who would be able to get his articles published in impressive scientific journals.

 

Most of the letters I have mailed to local newspapers, The Washington Times and Liberty were printed. The other publications on my list get several thousand letters a day, so the odds are daunting. Nevertheless, some of my letters have been printed there.

 

Yes. I have been, and am, published. I've written numerous newspaper articles, for local newspapers and magazines (across 20 years, probably around 100 or so, I lost count). On top of that, I've written several erotic fiction books that are published and are providing me with a nice little extra income every month.

 

Yes. It the Wall St. Journal

 

yes as part of public law 92-478, I and a friend while in college issued a paper to the Dept. of the Interior. "A recreational Resource Survey of Selected areas of The Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia." We later sold reprint rights to Busch Gardend in the Williamsburg area of Virginia. Those rights were plagerized(cksp) by the operator of Dismal Swamp Tours. I caught him when on a lark I took his tour. I made him pay us a few hundred for the illegal use.