If your first thought when you read this title had something to do with sex, welcome to the gutter, dear friend. It’s nice and warm and orgasmic in here!
Alas, even though I do enjoy writing about sex, this post is not about that kind of in-and-out.
I’m talking about the in-and-out of submissions. I’m talking about immediately re-submitting the writing that gets rejected. I’m talking about giving yourself a wee bit of time to wallow, rage or stuff your face with comfort food if you receive a rejection, but then making time to find another place to submit the same work. Make edits if you’d like, but you really don’t have to. Find another home possibility. Re-name the file. Follow the new submission guidelines and submit the same work again. And again. And again.
New eyes, and a new heart and head will read the writing, and hey, perhaps they’ll finally find love with your work and you’ll get published…or a nice rejection response.
What I’m saying here is – the work of the writing is already done, so keep putting it out there.
It’s January 8, and I’ve received two rejections already. I just re-submitted the poetry to another publication. Easy-peasy. Took me about 15 minutes. I opened my submission tracker, and inputed the details about this new submission so as not to forget what I’ve submitted and where and when.
And then I wrote this blog.
It’s the old in-and-out, friends. Not quite as pleasurable a sex, but maybe as quick? Heee. I mean, errrr….ummmm…
VANESSA SHIELDS 
Hi V,
Funny, your headline did not make me think of sex for a moment. In-N-Out Burger has 400 locations in California, Nevada and a few other western states. It’s the only burger joint that Anne will go to.
It started slowly in the late 1940s in So. California. For years it was a cult thing for those of us in the LA area. By the 1990s it started expanding, opening dozens and dozens of stores. At many locations, including here in Reno, you will see In-N-Out on one street corner with a line of cars stretching down the block while the other nearby burger joint chains are virtually empty.
I have no idea if 75 years ago they intended their name to be provocative. Now it just means a “double-double burger.” Is that name provocative? Here is way more info on the place than you need, but the graphics are cute. https://www.in-n-out.com/history [https://www.in-n-out.com/history]
Mark  Â
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I’ve never eaten at an in-and-out but now i’m intrigued! will definitely get a burger there next time i’m in the states! ha!
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I was thinking of burgers )
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