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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 1624821" data-attributes="member: 508">I got my start freelancing for Dragon back in the TSR days...I think I first started submitting articles in 1992, and was first published in October 1993.  The best advice I can give is to keep at it, no matter how many rejections pile up.  In fact, hang on to your rejected material, as you never know when you can polish it up and use it elsewhere, or at least steal bits and pieces of the good stuff buried inside it in a different article, adventure, or whatnot.  (If I remember correctly, my first article was about the 10th that I had submitted.)  The more often you get published, the easier it becomes.  I met Alexander Fennell (of Mongoose) at a Gen Con several years back and he set me up with Mongoose head Matthew Sprange to do some Slayer's Guides based on the strength of my frequent "Ecology of" articles for Dragon.You also have to learn to develop a thick skin, and realize that not everybody's going to like your work.  I was initially devastated to read a review (already at that point several years out of date, but I was slow to adapt to the Internet) of Dragon magazine as a whole, over its multi-decade history, and have the reviewer decide that basically everything in the magazine was great except for my Monster Hunters "Ecology" articles.  Yes, in his mind I was the single worst thing about the magazine's entire history.  (That'll cure anyone of any possible ego inflation, huh?)  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />My full list of published works can be found in <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=91779" target="_blank">THIS THREAD</a>.Johnathan</blockquote>

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