Quoting Janet Reid from a recent post on her excellent blog:
“It got me thinking. I realized there is a very simple solution for all your rejection problems. All of them, forever more. You really don’t want any more of them do you? They’re totally awful, completely depressing, and we all know Rejection Just Sucks.
“Ok, here’s the solution: Stop Writing. If you never send out another query, you’ll never get another rejection. Easy-peasy.
“Wait, that’s not a solution you’re willing to accept? Well ok then. How about we look at rejections like this:
“You love to write. You love to write more than you hate rejections. You love being a writer. So, you love rejections the least of all the parts of writing you love, but faced with a choice of no writing/no rejections, you choose to be a writer. You choose ALL the parts of being a writer, because it’s all or none, and you are a writer.
“Now back to work.”
Great post. Hear, hear!
You can also avoid rejections by editing! “Art FOR the sake of art…”
You don’t have to stop writing to stop getting rejections. To stop getting rejections you would just have to stop submitting stories.
You shouldn’t be writing to get published. You should be writing to write. Art of the sake of art, right?
At least the internet gives people the opportunity to write without rejection. Sure, it’s writing without recognition…but, if you’re writing to be recognized, then you’re not much of an artist. Are you?
Another tip for writers looking to avoid rejection letters is to write better. Don’t be crazy. Don’t submit crap. And get good criticism.
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Go to the “Literary section” of my stupid blog and you’ll find some of my short creative nonfiction and fiction. Do it.
Amen, brother!