Rejection

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me. ~ Lisa Alther

I have been thinking about rejections lately. Author of The Help, Katheryn Stockett, received 60 rejection letters before she found someone to buy her book. (Here is a link if you want to read more about this.) I am not that tenacious. However, if I think about it, I was probably rejected far more than 60 times, if I count every time I didn’t submit something because I rejected it without the work ever leaving my hands. This is the worst rejection of all. When writers reject their own stuff, they are rejected by an unpaid, rank amateur.