AS AN AUTHOR HAVE YOU PREPARED YOURSELF FOR REJECTION?
CAN YOU CONQUER YOUR FEELINGS OF FAILURE?
Kathryn Stockett, The Help suffered through 60 rejections from agents.
“In the end, I received 60 rejections for The Help,” Stockett wrote. “But letter number 61 was the one that accepted me. After my five years of writing and three and a half years of rejection, an agent named Susan Ramer took pity on me."
"What if I had given up at 15? Or 40? Or even 60?"
Other famous authors who have gone through multiple rejections by publishers are JK Rowling (12 times), Stephen King (30 times), Dr Seuss (27 times), Agatha Christie, JRR Tolkein, and our very own Amish Tripathi.
Many best-selling authors have faced rejections but have conquered their feelings of failure to achieve extraordinary success.
“Rejection has value. Rejection refines us. Those who fall prey to it are doomed. Those who persist past it are survivors. Best ask yourself the question: what kind of writer are you? The kind who survives? Or the kind who gets asphyxiated by the tentacles of woe?” – Chuck Wendig
Remember that even if you have written a literary masterpiece there will always be a few who dislike your work.
Know this – you are not alone!
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