31 Days of Rut-Busting Tips For Writers for 2025—Day 5

Accept the Reality of Rejection.

Isaac Asimov said that “rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil – but there is no way around them.”

The fact is that all writers, not just you, experience rejection in one form or another.

What determines your writing “life expectancy” is how you handle it. Don’t waste time and energy being angry or disheartened.

In Rejection Is an Enormous Part of a Writer’s Life, Alexander Ch...