A Writer’s Guide to Dealing with Rejection

Rejection bites.

That’s the plain and simple truth.

You pour your heart into a story and revise the heck out of it. You submit/query and repeat until hopefully someone finally thinks that you have something worth publishing. Unless you’re some sort of literary genius whose work always gets accepted on the very first submission, it can become quite a discouraging process.

Rejection is a blow to the ego.

It makes us question whether we possess talent or not.

It makes us wonder whether we should keep t...