Ask These 3 Questions To Use Rejections and Editors’ Notes To Your Advantage
Where is it coming from? What is the intention? Would it help?
I could start this off by saying, “you are not entitled to anything,” “an editor is always right,” or “we deal with 100 writers like you, so cut us some slack.” But I won’t. What I would want you to know more than anything is I understand.
Rejections suck. Not only do they activate the same areas of your brain that experience physical pain, but they instill a deep sense of failure in you. And if someone says it’s easy to brush off, someone is full of sh*t.
As Morgan Brittany once said:
“You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it’s a personal rejection.”
But guess what? It rarely is personal.
Yes. Every now and then, you might come across an editor who is a plain jerk. (Believe it or not, they are everywhere.) But it doesn’t mean every editor who turns down your piece or has anything critical to say about it is a piece of crap. (That would be too much oversimplification for a single day.)
So here’s a little litmus test that would help you determine if the rejection is fair and how you can use those editors’ notes to your…
