As a person who begun writing in late 2004/5 I have had it easier. Send in an email, most never bother to reply, so I always have this chance of ‘hey, they didn’t read it’, or ‘hey, the mail never reached them. I will resend them once I get the time’. though in my heart I knew that I was scrutinized, tested, and found wanting.

Nowadays, rejections come to me over mail, but with a varied number of reasons ‘project canceled’, ‘awarded to someone else’ etc.

Thats the way I like it.
.-= Roy Daniel DSilva´s last blog ..Work at Home Tips: A Paid Subscription to a Job Site? Hold that Thought! =-.

My first rejections were of my songs in the 80′s, as I wanted to be a professional songwriter. I didn’t get a single one that said I couldn’t write; every one I got said they couldn’t hear a pop hit in the song. Truthfully, I think I only wrote one song ever that sounded like a top 10 song; who remembers when Lionel Richie was on top?

Then in 2003 and 2004 I sent out a lot of letters trying to get a publisher to accept my book for publication. I ended up with close to 50 rejections before I decided to just self publish the thing and move on. I even got Ken Blanchard to read it, as it is a book on leadership and management; he liked it, but said it wasn’t in his style, which was fine because it wasn’t supposed to be.

I will say that I’ve kept some of the rejection slips, but not most of them, mainly because of my music experience. I figure that at least I had the guts to try.
.-= Mitch´s last blog ..My Online Goals For 2010, And A Look Back At 2009 =-.

I didn’t submit anything for a long time after that, not because I was afraid or upset, just because I wasn’t writing as much, only journaling. Then came loads of homework when I went back to school, and finally I got back into fiction. Now I’m querying a book and collecting them right and left. I’ve made a file for them and I’ll save them for posterity when I’m rich and famous, LOL!
.-= Elizabeth West´s last blog ..Feed Me =-.

Happy new year

Rebecca
.-= rebecca subbiah´s last blog ..Asparagus with Sesame and Peanut Sauce =-.

I find that these days, with email, the sting is lessened because it can be so much more informal. Just the other day, I emailed an editor of a new magazine about dogs (kind of my area) to sound out the possibility of contributing, and to find out the sort of stories they had planned. He responded positively, but I think the scariness of it (and therefore the likeliness of being crushed by rejection) was definitely less than if I’d been waiting by the mailbox for my yea or nay. And, in fact, this way I had a much better idea of what they were after than if I’d just tried to guess and pitch them something.
.-= Lucy Smith´s last blog ..Why are we not content with web content? =-.