Andrew Scott on Rejection

Great post by Andrew Scott at Beyond the Margins on rejection.

After more than 416 submissions, Scott's short story collection was published by Press 53--in other words, he's a success story.

Here's another tidbit from his post:

"After six years and 252 submissions, one of my stories was accepted for publication, but not in a literary journal."

I think my fiction students have no idea what the numbers game is like with this stuff, and I think if they knew they might never write a word again. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Read the whole post at Beyond the Margins here:

http://beyondthemargins.com/2011/09/try-try-again-rejection-and-persistance/