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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Jacobs" data-source="post: 2053988" data-attributes="member: 23937">One thing that should be said: If you're looking to break into the gut-wrenching world of writing articles for Draong and Dungeon, the best way to start is with submissions to Class Acts (the one-page articles that appear at the back of Dragon) or the Campaign Workbook (the two-page articles that appear at the back of Dungeon). Since we print 11 and 4-5 of these respectively each and every month in the magazines, we tend to burn through our accepted articles there really quickly. You can send these submissions in without a query (at least, you can for Campaign Workbook), and the wait time between having one of these articles being accepted and it seeing print is generally fairly short. (For longer articles, it's not unusual for a year or more to pass between the inital proposal and final publicaiton and payment.)I think that Class Acts is always looking for stuff for Wizards or Sorcerers (but I could be wrong... I try not to pay TOO much attention to those Dragon editors cause they're kind of crazy). I know that we're always scrounging for installments of "The Cast" on the Dungeon side of the fence.In any case, these two forums are great for new writers to break into the market, because they're A) easy to write and B) get the editors to know your name. And once an editor knows your name... well, it just makes it easier. If only because then we feel REALLY guilty for ignoring a proposal from you for too long, rather than just KINDA guilty...My best advice, though, is to not let the rejection letters get you down. Every one of the editors on staff now have had more articles rejected from the magazines in the past than they've had them accepted, I'll wager. I know it's true in my case!</blockquote>

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