Rejection Hurts

I have received more rejections than I have acceptances. It is just how the business goes. Some of the nicest rejections I have gotten are those that offer advice along with the apology that they couldn't use your material.

My first rejection was devastating. I didn't understand why the editors didn't like my work when I put so much time and energy into the project that I devoted whole days to writing. But as time went on and I talked to my writing professors, I realized that the rejections helped my writing rather than hindered.

I was more determined than ever to get my work out there.

Just recently I sent some of my poems out to literary journals that I hoped would take my work. I received the first rejection the next day. It didn't even sting. The second didn't come until months later to the point that I had forgotten to even check if I had the email. That rejection didn't hurt either because it listed those that would be in that month's publication.

Even though these journals didn't want my work, I know that some publication will.

As far as for novels and books of the like I haven't finished mine to send out to anyone. Yet, anyway.

Remember, rejection hurts, but every rejection letter you receive only makes that acceptance all the sweeter.