Some days rejection comes in a light trickling form...so slight, you barely notice things are damp. But then there the tsunami days. The ones where rejections spring up so fast and vast* that you can't tell which way is up.
On those days, I stop, take a breath, and remind myself that I am an unstoppable force of unspeakable evil. The reason I even have this phrase? This post by the amazing Rejectionist, http://www.therejectionist.com/2010/07/what-form-rejection-means-to-you.html, wherein she advises her author-friends to remind themselves that they are a "motherfucking force of righteousness," and her brilliant commenter Simon C. Larter, who adapts that to the phrase to those of us in the villian set.
Everywhere I turn, other writers are there reminding me that nothing worth fighting for is easy. As a former lawyer, it always surprises me to see colleagues helping shore each other up instead of targeting weakness. This is why writers > lawyers!
For a great example of this, check out this post by Jodi Meadows,** a writer with a YA trilogy coming out, and, more importantly for our purposes, alumna of the three-digit rejection letter pile:
http://corrinejackson.com/wordpress/2010/07/27/guest-post-jodi-meadows-on-a-lesson-learned/ "You never know what's right around the corner. It could be everything you hoped for."
HEY TSUNAMI DAY! I found the way up after all!
*seriously, do agents coordinate the clearing of their query inboxs or something?
**http://www.jodimeadows.com. Do you like YA speculative fiction? Of course you do! And you should be hurrying over to this site immediately to read all about Jodi's upcoming book ERIN INCARNATE.
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