Today, I realized that not only am I still an unpublished author, but I can't even get an FML posted after submitting several in the last year. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I realized the only real accomplishment I've had in my life that I take any pride in is that I've had an FML published. FML
Today, I wrote a submission to FML and I realized that I could be doing so much more with my life than this. I mean really, I have real life stuff to deal with, and I don't have the time to be reading these s*itposts, much less making my own. FML
Today, again I wrote out another FML. Again, I deleted it before posting. Every FML I write would seem like I'm just making stuff up, or would be so obviously me that it would just cause me grief. My life is just an endless stream of weird stuff I can't tell family or friends. FML
Today, after working on my novel for two years, I found out that another book has recently been published with an almost identical plot. I was going to submit it to a publisher in two days. FML
Today, after submitting a 500-word essay to a writing contest, I found out that I lost to someone who wrote 3 sentences. FML
Today, my therapist told me to write down my goals for the next five years. After thinking hard for what seemed like forever, all I could come up with was getting a girlfriend and having an FML published. And to be honest, I'm not even sure about that first one. FML
Today, I uploaded the first chapter of my best writing yet to a popular writing website. After ten minutes, I was thrilled to already see one review and five comments. Each comment was telling me to immediately delete the story because of how horrible it was. The rating was half a star. FML
Today, I came home to find two letters from a publishing house that I'd submitted my manuscript to. The first was congratulatory, stating that my book had been accepted for publishing. The second was apologetic, stating that the first letter had been intended for someone else. FML
Today, I finally got a phone call from a publisher saying they would publish the book I'd written. I'd gotten loads of rejection letters, so I was so excited. Until I realized it was my dad, feeling sorry for me. FML
Today, I checked this site to find out that my previous submission had made it onto the main page. This has been the sole highlight in my life for the past month. FML
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Top comments
ImaginaryFoe 1
Who knew you FML mods had a soft spot for whiny failures? It warms my heart really.
ReyEr9412 0
This FML is an oxymoron.
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Comments (166)
blastvortex 4
Oh, cry me a river.... Karma wins again. Isn't irony a bitch? LOL
rauj13 0
Who told you a split infinitive is bad grammar?
Stotan1228 0
Somebody call the waaaaaambulance. shut up and stop spamming you pansy. do you realize how many people use this site and submit fml's each day?
QueenOfStars 0
ugh mine won't upload either! like really?!
boatkicker 5
Oh, come on OP. What do you write? Age, Genre, Length? If you write short stories of just about any age-range and genre, keep looking for magazines and anthologies. There are tons of them. I would guess, however, that you are a novel writer. 1) Have you actually submitted? You'd be surprised how many people are upset about not being published even though they've never submitted. If not, you need to get on that. 2) In your rejections, what did they say was wrong with it? Fix that. They know what they're talking about, for the most part. 3) Are you working with an agent? If not, that might help. 4) It might be time to edit it again. It may even be time to re-write the entire thing from scratch. 5) If all else fails, shelf that one and write something else. 6) Don't let rejections get you down. Everyone gets rejected. I don't know an author who hasn't been.
DannyIsAFish 0
Maybe your FMLs and stories weren't good enough. Have you tried acting? You seem to be a very dramatic fellow.
Tahsis 4
An oxymoron is defined as a "compact paradox" and since this is clearly not compact, because it's a story, it's not an oxymoron. So Sirin how do you like that English lesson? (But this FML is extremely ironic, but that's why it was selected in the first place).
waterysoul 0
How terrible!
kekepania87 0
I can't get any published either. I think it's rigged HA
ohSNAPyall 27
Weh, weh. You should have published this FML serially to keep drawing us in.