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The other day it happened again.
“Thank you for your submission to xxxxx. I regret to inform you that we are unable to use it at this time.”
It is far from my first rejection, and it will not be the last one either. It does not leave me quite as devastated as the first ones, yet I do get grumpy or dejected for a day or two, depending on how important the submission was. And it would have been really nice to tell my readers I had sold a story right now – just to prove that I am not only a self-publishing writer.
Well, they have a point (the ending being too abrupt), and that is why agents and editors come in handy, I suppose. They have that distance to your work which you can never achieve yourself. So now that they have showed me the flaw, I may have a better story for you at some other time.
And in the meantime, let me prop up my self-esteem a little bit:
The opening paragraph is wonderful — compact and developing. I also liked the progression of the piece in its structure and believability of interactions. … The descriptions are well written.
So perhaps I should just find someone who is a better ´plotter´ and become a brilliant ghost writer? 🙂
If you are a writer, how do you handle rejections?
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