Letters to the Editor
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Start a blog
Dear Writer or a Fool:
Cary's advice ("keep writing") is pretty sound so far as it goes, but it is not complete: he did not, I believe, tackle the real issue that you were asking about: what should you do with your writing?
Here are some thoughts on this issue:
1) Keep sending your writing out to the magazines, contests, and so on.
2) Explore all avenues you can find to get your writing to the notice of your potential readers.
Today, you have a great new medium available that was not there for generations past: the Internet.
Start a blog - this kind of short-circuits the 'intermediaries/ middle-men' (editors, judges, and so on), and gets more or less directly to your potential readers.
Of course, you still do have to figure out how you will make your blog known to your potential readers (this is no trivial matter!) But many have managed to figure this out; if you keep writing, maybe you will be able to do this also.
Best wishes,
-- GSC