10 Ways to Make Rejection Work for You
Many times we overcome the fear of rejection and walk right in with our ideas, but what we don’t get rid of is the residue of rejection on the way out—the bitterness or low self-worth that is left over from the rejection. Handling rejection properly is the difference between being jaded, cynical, apathetic, and desperate and being confident, present, and amazingly successful. Here are ten ways I think you can filter out the negative residue of rejection and find yourself coming out on top.
Me? A Writer?
And in the midst of my rant, she says, “You should be a writer. Have you ever thought about that? You have a writer personality.”
6 Days and 40 Manuscripts Later: Musings of an Editor Reviewing Submissions
I want writers to be successful. I want to see them take ownership of their gift—research more, practice more, train more, hone and fine-tune more, go back to the drawing board more, be critiqued more, and think more about the industry as a whole.