Learning How to Take Rejection
Oct 08, 2022•45 min•Ep. 140
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Episode description
Okay. Rejection. Got another one this past week. The journal is called The Rupture and they didn’t want my short story, So Close. Today we’re going to talk about all the ways writers get rejected and what you can do about it.
My Submittable account has 88 declines in it dating all the way back to 2012. A bunch in 2013, a pair in 2014 and 2015, a few in 2016 and 2017, and the bulk of them in 2018 when I went on my submit-every-week tear and racked up 52 “no thanks yous.”
Is that how you build calluses? Well, yeah. Get told “no” enough and you get used to it.
We all have our great rejection stories. What’s yours?
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