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Industry Truth 28 of 30

The "Submission Guidelines" Maze: Designed to Reject

Tales From A Harrogate Caravan

A complex maze with no clear exit.

The Industry Way

Agencies create incredibly specific, labyrinthine submission guidelines just to see if you can follow directions. "Format your headers in font size 11.8," "include a word count in the subject line but not the body," "wait exactly 63 days." They use these rules as a "cull" mechanism. If you miss one minor detail, they don't even look at your work. They treat you like a child who needs to be punished for not following the script.

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The "submission guideline" industry is a form of passive-aggressive gatekeeping. By setting impossible-to-follow rules, agents reduce their workload by automatically disqualifying anyone who doesn't possess the exact same obsession with bureaucracy as they do. It doesn't find the best writers; it finds the most compliant ones. It is a system that rewards obedience over imagination. We choose to look for the imagination.

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