The other day I was submitting to literary fiction markets that pay ridiculously low amount of money or don't pay at all. Because that is what you do when you want to be an English professor. Publish in places with names that end in "review." The Indiana Review. The Bellingham Review. The View Review. The Fractions Review, not to be confused with its bitter rival, The Decimals Review, which publishes the same ideas expressed differently.

(Damn I'm good.)

These sites are, on average, 20% more wordy than your typical submission-guideline site. Instead of "Read the magazine to find out what we want" it's "we high recommend you purchase a copy of the Review and reading a sampling of our stories."

It bugs me that they didn't go all the way and use the word "Peruse" to describe the magazine. "Peruse our hallowed pages and glean insight into our acceptatory process."