Don't throw your old articles into the trash bin.

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Having now cleared my hobby room and tidied away all my beads and findings, put likely material for making cards in a drawer (in the unlikely event that I will) I have to tackle the final mountain of the folders next. I have 17 folders containing articles, clippings, useful tips and recipes accumulated for years longer than I care to remember. Probably I will find much of it out of date now so I hope to empty a few. It will be an interesting journey especially reading some of the old posts, old articles and even one or two short stories deemed not good enough to keep but I must not be over zealous about this because sometimes a rejected article can eventually be submitted again elsewhere and prove acceptable. I’m thinking along these lines because I received an email several weeks ago telling me that my article was going to be published in a quarterly magazine called ‘Evergreen’. Some of the older English ‘mylotters’ will know of it. Anyway I had to stop and think because the article had been sent 6 months before and I had forgotten all about it. I know from experience that half the victory is submitting something at the right time on the right subject. Mine was about a boy I grew up with who became a pop singer and it just happened that the magazine is promoting a series of articles about 50s and 60s pop stars. My article had been written a year or so before and filed away. I found it, edited it to suit this particular magazine and eventually struck lucky. Maybe when I go through my old folders I shall strike lucky again. Well, I can live in hope…