They'll tell you that a rejection isn't personal, that the editor is only rejecting the story, not you.
But deep inside your writerly core, the secret place that contains your hopes and dreams, you know that is untrue. Any rejection feels like an arrow piecing your heart, its barbs inflicting deep wounds that will leave tender scars on your psyche. A rejection is a personal affront, it's saying that you are not worthy of being published and all of the hours you sweated to polish that story to perfection are as nothing. In a word, rejection feels like failure.
So, what can you do? You can bite your lip, bitch and moan about the unfairness of it all to anyone nearby, curse the editor as a philistine, and even decide to never, ever submit to them again (a promise I've never been able to keep.) you can even mumble "I'll show that %^$# editor," as you submit it elsewhere and continue to create.
Doing any or all of that is fine, but it doesn't change the fact that you have been cast aside.
Rejection hurts!
But deep inside your writerly core, the secret place that contains your hopes and dreams, you know that is untrue. Any rejection feels like an arrow piecing your heart, its barbs inflicting deep wounds that will leave tender scars on your psyche. A rejection is a personal affront, it's saying that you are not worthy of being published and all of the hours you sweated to polish that story to perfection are as nothing. In a word, rejection feels like failure.
So, what can you do? You can bite your lip, bitch and moan about the unfairness of it all to anyone nearby, curse the editor as a philistine, and even decide to never, ever submit to them again (a promise I've never been able to keep.) you can even mumble "I'll show that %^$# editor," as you submit it elsewhere and continue to create.
Doing any or all of that is fine, but it doesn't change the fact that you have been cast aside.
Rejection hurts!
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