How to Take the Sting Out of Rejections

4 professional writers on how to reframe, rework, rebound, and carry on

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Being a writer — or any artist or performer — has challenges that many other occupations don’t have. Our work is rejected by editors, is criticized and trashed by readers, and sometimes, just vanishes into oblivion. Some rejections sting, some stab, some eviscerate us, most…