#55 Handling Rejection of Your Writing and Finding Strength in Community

You probably already know, or have heard, that rejection is a *big* part of writing to be read and submitting your work to lit mags. You probably also wish you could snap your fingers and become immune to rejection, but, sorry, it’s unavoidable. It just feels bad—we're wired for that. And, unfortunately, were we to totally avoid feeling bad about rejection, it would make us pretty bad writers. To be blasé about being turned down would likely require turning off all our feelings. And feeling is an occupational requirement for us writers.Before we leap right into those bad feelings of rejection, I asked the writers with us today to go through some of the things they learned they can do to minimize the chance of rejection for their work.

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