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My Story Was Rejected by the Editor. I Don’t Know Why.

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Ron Markley
3 min readNov 4, 2024
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I’m puzzled.

My story was rejected.

The editor left a note telling me that my story about “learn and earn” was way too dramatic about making money.

You told me to edit. That’s fine.

But before I decided to edit, I had to check other stories that were published by that pub.

I wanted to understand the pub’s direction and tone.

I scrolled down twice, then I found something that made me want to spill out the F-word in German.

I mean, fantastic!

I can’t speak German, but all I could do was laugh when reading the headline:

“How to make your first $100 on Medium.”

Bro, that’s sooooooo much more obvious than my articles.

Why did that one get published?

But I hate wasting my time arguing with people, especially on the internet.

So, I just moved on to another pub and hit publish.

I swear to God,

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Ron Markley
Ron Markley

Written by Ron Markley

I'm not a writer, just an ordinary guy who writes. Get free writing tips every Monday. https://writeeasyliveeasy101.substack.com/

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