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From: Dejected of Deal

Question: My stories keep getting rejected. What advice can you offer to help me deal with this?

Answer:

Dear Dejected,

What I'm not going to tell you is 'Pull yourself together and get on with it'. That doesn't really help when you are feeling so low. What I have done is to look up some websites that deal with this very problem. Some are funny, some are serious, but all will help you to 'renew your mind' and begin to see those rejection slips in a different light. Please give it a try.

"Read My Rejection Letters"
http://www.dangutman.com/pages/rejection.html
Dan Gutman wrote "Honus and Me" in the winter of 1993. It was the story of a boy who finds the most valuable baseball card in the world, a 1909 Honus Wagner. It took him 3 years to get it published and on his site he publishes the many letters of rejection he received. An amazing story.

Have You Had A Paper Rejected Lately?
http://www.columbia.edu/%7Exs23/reject.htm
A collection of ideas that were rejected but which went on to become huge successes.

Rotten Rejections (The Letters that Publishers Wish they'd never Sent)
http://www.writersservices.com/mag/m_rejection.htm
Quotations mostly taken from Andre Bernard's wonderful little book Rotten Rejections. Take heart this this little collection.

How to Deal With Rejection Letters
http://www.writersandartists.co.uk/2009/06/writin-rejection-letters-emma-bow/
Behind every published author is someone who’s had to deal with rejection. But how do you get over it? Guest blogger novelist Emma Bowd shares her experiences of dealing with the dreaded ‘no thank you’ letters.