Daily writing prompt
What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months?
Which is a reality every writer faces.
My goal is to always have at least 70 queries out. To keep track of this, I have set up an Excel spreadsheet that I keep carefullly updated. Rejections are highlighted in yellow.
I started sending queries out in December, so I’ve reached the point where at least one rejection a day is arriving by email. Every day the yellow part of the spreadsheet grows. Every day at least one rejection must be replaced with a new query.
That’s just how it goes.
Pam Troy 
5 responses to “Rejection”
Rejection is so hard to take. I’m not brave, like you. That takes guts.
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Thank you, though I’m not sure “brave” is the word. You just have to develop a diamond-hard ego and skin like a rhino’s.
Onward!
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I guess I don’t have the skin of a rhino, and my ego has been pretty pummeled the last few years. Best wishes to you! Perhaps I’ll muster up some courage down the line…? I wish you the best of success!
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Keep in mind that JK Rowling’s first manuscript for Harry Potter was rejected by 12 publishers.
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Thank you for your words of encouragement. I did self-publish a book in the small town where I live, and it caused me a lot of grief/harm. I have also since heard that publishers don’t like it when you self-publish. The person leading the writing group I used to be with said some famous writers had self-published, but I think it earns a writer a black mark. I needed some guidance with my book, too, which I didn’t get because there was no one I trusted to help me with it. I took it out of print and have let things just die down…. My sad tale of woe…. I guess it’s lost its importance for me.
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