1. 19 Jun



    Sarah Wrote That: On Rejection

    sarahwrotethat:

    Last night I received the 45th rejection for a story I think is one of the best I’ve written. A number of its rejections have been of the personalized, please-send-us more variety—the Rejection Wiki breaks down the tiers, journal-by-journal—and the story is in such a late stage of revision that…

    As someone who has a pile of stories sitting around I haven’t even had the courage to submit, I salute you and find this inspirational. 

     
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  25. esquared said: “what is it that I don’t get that all these other writers and stories are doing” you’re not writing shitty novels such as Twilight and 50 Shades of Shite. Nonetheless, Lolita and The Dubliners were rejected a lot before they were finally published.
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    As someone who has a pile of stories sitting around I haven’t even had the courage to submit, I salute you and find this...
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