A friend of mine who is out there pitching her first novel just wrote me an email with these words as the subject line:
"Do you have five minutes to talk about REJECTION?"
It made me laugh -- because of the rawness of the request, and the ludicrous nature of it. Five minutes? To talk about rejection? What writer has ever exhausted the subject of rejection in five minutes?? Rejection can be an all-consuming topic. It can keep you up at night, haunt your days. But here's what's brilliant: this friend knew what to do to keep rejection at bay. She reached out. She realized that she's not alone.
She will be fine.
3 comments:
There should be a special psyche couch for writer's when they are rejected, and a special doctor to listen to us. A rejections specialist!
Yes this is something we all experience on and off through life. I like your thought on keeping it at bay.
The whole reason I never pushed myself with my writing. I do not handle rejection well in any form.
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