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Buy a memory box to start saving them in. While you're out, also get more stamps and send that story right back out again! (Unless you got a personalized rejection with feedback?)
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Congrats! If you're not getting rejected you're not finishing and you're not submitting. Now keep submitting, keep working...
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My uncle used to sell insurance door to door. When he heard I wanted to write, he shared something with me. He said that if you ask enough people, eventually somebody will agree to buy anything. So each "no" brings you one step closer to finding your "yes." Good job getting closer to finding your "yes!"
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You are officially a writer! I got my first one a few weeks back. I am determined to get rejection letters from all the finest publications, and two not so fine ones.
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Many published authors have about a few hundred of those things. Just keep submitting. Later, once you get published, you'll look at your first rejection letter and just smile .
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You get used to it. I'm well over a thousand, not counting poetry---I lost count long ago.
Somewhere I've still got the first one I ever got, way back when. Form letter from Analog...and printed on a much nicer grade of paper than they or the other two of the Big Three put out these days.
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Ayyy! You broke your cherry! Congratulations! And you did the right thing: you chose a better looking market.
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I have a list of markets that fit each story. I'm constantly updating it, so that when I get another rejection (like I did yesterday :P), I just send it right back out again.
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Did anyone else envision IB dressed as an old woman, sitting in a rocking chair, and grinning like a fool when he said, "You broke your cherry"?
Sheena, congratulations on progressing as a writer.
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