Probably not something that you want to hear right now - but this is neither the end of your journey, nor the beginning of it. It's a rest stop.
Even when you get accepted and published and reviewed and you get actual honest-to-goodness FANMAIL in your inbox... it's not guarantee of anything, it's no guarantee that you will ever do it AGAIN. So every single thing any of us ever submitted is subject to this - the rejection blues, the "not for us right now" letter, the "take it away now and come back with something else". I have a short story I love to bits which simply can't find a home - not because it's bad, because it just doesn't FIT, quite, at any place where I've tried to send it. I guess I'll just have to live with it.
In the meantime... go on. Put a band-aid over the scrapes and scratches, try to staunch the bleeding, wait for the scabs to come... and go on.
We've all been here. We'll be here again. From one writer to another... courage. And sympathy.
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Date: 2009-04-19 05:13 am (UTC)Even when you get accepted and published and reviewed and you get actual honest-to-goodness FANMAIL in your inbox... it's not guarantee of anything, it's no guarantee that you will ever do it AGAIN. So every single thing any of us ever submitted is subject to this - the rejection blues, the "not for us right now" letter, the "take it away now and come back with something else". I have a short story I love to bits which simply can't find a home - not because it's bad, because it just doesn't FIT, quite, at any place where I've tried to send it. I guess I'll just have to live with it.
In the meantime... go on. Put a band-aid over the scrapes and scratches, try to staunch the bleeding, wait for the scabs to come... and go on.
We've all been here. We'll be here again. From one writer to another... courage. And sympathy.