How My Most Heartbreaking Rejection Set Me on My Authentic Writing Path
#ShareYourRejections is trending on Twitter, and the entire writing community has tons of personal rejection stories to tell because rejection is one humongous, unavoidable part of being a writer. I mean, instant success happens, but only to unicorns. It's all good though because rejections make us look at our work with fresh eyes. Rejections humble us and remind us we always have room to learn and improve. Rejections help us evaluate what we really want and go for it with every ounce of our fighting spirit. I was proud of my very first rejection (from Jenny Bent) because it meant I was TRYING. It meant I had finished a book and had the courage to put it out there. So I saved it and told myself I would celebrate that letter every year. I never did celebrate because it soon faded into the tons of rejections to follow. They all sounded pretty much the same for a long time. But I pressed on and never let them stop me. Until one day... I got the rejection letter that really f