Finally submitted the story I’ve been writing to an online publication. Might sound perverse, but I almost want to be rejected — not being I’m a masochist, but rather because I know rejection is a part of the writing career. I’ve heard that a writer should aspire to 100 rejections a year, the assumption being that among all that failure will be several key successes. I’m not going to get to a hundred by the end of 2017, but 25… we’ll have to see.
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Yep, there is a truth. I once papered a wall with rejection slips. The joy of the publication of a few short stories did indeed fire my creative spark. Hope it all works well for you.
I can think of better ways to decorate my home, but I’m looking forward to garnering a whole bunch of rejections, along with the occasional victory