![]() ![]() DIE IN OBSCURITY HOW TOI don’t know how to tell you to do that really, but find a hobby that brings you pleasure and people that support you. Feel the self-doubt and submit it anyway.įind a sense of self-worth elsewhere. ![]() Make sure your submissions are good (not to mention typo free) before you send them out the first time and do not reread them before submitting after that. As soon as you get rejected, send the work out again. The year I decided to submit to three places a week was my best year of publications ever, even if I didn’t manage to do it all year. The more you submit, the more you will be rejected, but also the more you will be accepted. Do your research, but don’t pin your hopes on an individual journal, grant, agent, or contest. Terri Lynn Coop says it better (scroll down to the comments). I once rejected a poem from my small grad school literary journal that I read years later in Poetry. You might like something, but another reader doesn’t. ![]() As you read submissions, you will quickly see that all good writing does not get immediately published and that rejection is not personal. How does a writer become resilient even without having a good writer roommate?īecome a reader for a literary journal. I submitted my first poems to a literary magazine, and when I was sent a rejection form she said to me, “Congratulations! You are a real writer now!” She was older and a great deal more experienced than me, however she took my beginning writerly ambitions and my poems seriously. In my early twenties, I was lucky enough to be roommates with a writer. “Resilience in the face of rejection and disappointment is perhaps the biggest key to success. And one quote has stuck with me particularly. It is a smart book about all the nonwriting stuff that goes into having a writing career, however we may define it. I’ve been reading Jane Friedman’s The Business of Being a Writerover the past few weeks. ![]()
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