Coping With Rejection, Part 2

Writing from your reality

Salaam readers!

Read Part 1 of Coping With Rejection here.

Have you ever been so worried about rejection that you don’t even get to the stage of sending out your work to magazines or publishers?

Or told yourself, “it’ll probably get rejected, so why even bother”? Or had an Emily Dickinson moment and stuffed your heartfelt scribblings away in a dark closet, hoping against hope for posthumous glory?

You aren’t remotely weird. (Well, maybe you are, but not because of this – and we certainly won’t hold it against you.)

You and me against the (publishing) world

From the outside, the world of publishing is shrouded in an aura of elitism. If you don’t know any professional writers personally, it can be very hard to even imagine yourself going through the steps; there are brain cells known as mirror neurones that switch on when we watch someone doing something, allowing us to envision ourselves doing it.

When we haven’t seen someone else go through the steps, we can often succumb to imposter syndro…