4 Ways Writers Can Deal with Rejection

Back before email, there were days when I would get several rejections from magazines in one day, which meant big fat manilla envelopes in my mailbox. If I happened to be there when the mailman was filling the boxes in our apartment building, it also meant pitying looks from him. That was almost as bad as the times when I'd open the mailbox and the envelopes would spill out onto the floor of the mail room with people watching me bend to pick them up. Humiliating.



I'd had a dreamlike start. I'd...