Rejection: Part 2

ByGuest Writer

In part one I talked about rejection and the inevitability of it. Continuing on the same theme,  please take a minute and cheer yourself up with some of the more famous literary rejections. These anecdotes always give me hope because they all have a common thread: every writer here persisted despite the rejections. Robert M Persig‘s Zen…

Rejection Lessons

ByGuest Writer

My writing teacher warned me this would happen. One rejection letter after another piled on shelves and shoved into filing cabinets. There’s enough paper to cover my office walls–and ceiling and floor and some of the hallway. Well, that’s one solution. There has to be more to the rejection letter than dust collector and object…