How Writers Cope with REJECTION
Frankly, I’ve had mixed results. Most of the time it’s simply ‘Meh’ and resubmit. These days when I submit a short story I’ll have the next market already researched and on the list.
Sometimes I’ve taken it badly, usually because my hopes were unrealistically high, i.e. based on no evidence whatsoever. And once I actually sat down and cried*. My rejection skin, like that of a rhinoceros, is thick but has weak spots.
Enough of that! Writers – here’s a glorious new thing that fell into my lap courtesy of good friends and serendip.
Friday night I was chatting in the kitchen with the lovely Gaie, listening to the blues on the radio, talking about words and writing as we ever do. For reasons now lost in the mists of time (and down the bottom of a bottle of Spitfire) we started on about Rejection. I made up a couple of verses of a blues lament and tweeted them
I woke up this morning,
Saw a letter on the floor.
It came from a publisher
Who didn’t want my words no more.
They said my characters were dull
My plots were old news
Yeah, I got them, I got to tell ya,
I got those just Rejected Blues.
By 10am Saturday my old friend Jim King had written the rest of the song, and by the afternoon the stunningly talented Anne-Marie Czajkowski had recorded this:
Lovely, crazy, talented friends – now THAT’s how to cope with rejection! Thank you!
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