Query Friday: Embracing rejection

Embracing rejection:

 

 

I'm not quite there.

I've tried. I've printed them out and filed them away. 

I've tried to make it a game:

 

B	I	N	G	O
R&R	Personalized	Request for More MSS	Personalized	No Response
Champagne Rejection	No Response	Personalized	“Please try me again later”	Form Rejection
No Response	Form Rejection	Offer of Rep!!!!	Twitter Pitch Request	Personalized
“Please try me again later”	No Response	Champagne Rejection	No reply	Request for more MSS
Request for more MSS!	Form Rejection	R & R	Personalized	Champagne rejection!

Not my idea but a very clever one that at least  makes me laugh...sometimes cry when I run out of form rejection spaces...

And I've just left email there, scanning the first line, but not quite working up the will to finish them for weeks at a time.

I know, I know... rejection is a milestone that almost every writer faces. The stories are endless:

J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter series)- 12 times

William Golding (Lord of the Flies)- 20 times

John Grisham (A Time to Kill)- 16 tines 

Stephen King (Carrie)- 30 times

Issac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Joyce, Shannon Hale, Judy Blume and so many more.

And I am, in fact,

But its still hard.

What I try to remind myself is that its a sign I'm still trying. I'm pursuing my dream. And I'm not letting fear make my decisions. The more I remind myself, the more I'm ready to take that next rejection and say...

 

-B