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Tag: rejection

Want to get published more? Embrace rejection — an update

Publications, writingApril 24, 2017November 24, 2017

I got the nicest rejection letter recently. No, I’m totally serious. I wanted to write them back and say thank you; thank you for rejecting my work! Are they going to publish it? No. Did I win any sort of consolation prize (like, you know, money)? No. Is my name going to be on some …

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Goal for 2017: Actively seek rejection. (Yes, really.)

writingJanuary 9, 2017November 24, 2017

Happy New Year! That’s less of a declaration and more an expression of hope, as in “wow, I hope 2017 will be happy.” Because 2016 was a bit of a Dumpster fire, wasn’t it? Between a horrific election cycle and the way the year killed off so many actors, musicians, and artists, by Dec. 31 …

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Why rejection is good for the soul

writingDecember 25, 2014September 26, 2017

I got another rejection notice yesterday. It was for a story I wrote during grad school, in my fiction workshop with Linda Svendsen, about a couple in the St. Louis suburbs dealing with a wayward armadillo. (I think I've written about that story here before, but anyway.) There was an article in the Missouri Botanical …

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