Well, I received another rejection from yet another literary journal. Rejection is part of the publication process, but well, I'd prefer to just skip it and move right along to acceptance, accolades, special invitations to submit my work. A personal note of feedback or encouragement along with the notice of rejection would be an improvement over these computer-generated form responses. You know, the ones that start with "Unfortunately..." Say no more.
I admit that I have never been very good at Po-Biz. I have to force myself to sit down and organize my poems into "batches" and identify my "target" publications. And send, send, send....one trick I don't have down yet is to have my Plan B ready for the day when I receive a rejection (like today's from Barrow Street Journal), and be poised to immediately send the batch of poems back out to my next target. And skip the licking the wound stage of my resubmission process. Just keep the poems circulating. It's.like the equivalent of "flipping" a house. I'll have to get better at "flipping" my submissions...
Somehow, there must be a way to get emotions out of the way, and buckle down to accomplish the task. I would love to hear your strategies for getting your creative work out to the publishing world.
Ok, I'm ready for the Up Side.
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If you get rid of those emotions, you'll be a poor poet. Poets have emotions. That's why they write well.
Just give the rejection letters the finger and be sorry for them that they missed a great opportunity. Then send your work to the next group. How many times was Harry Potter rejected before it was published? 12
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