Tag Archives: Rejection

Learning to live with rejection, 500 times over

Posted on July 30, 2017 by crhodges

Rejection is a part of life for everyone.  We get rejected by colleges, for jobs and very occasionally by runaway brides.  But us writers, we get rejected more.  A lot more. Me, I’ve been rejected by one college (___ me, … Continue reading →

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Good rejections

Posted on February 9, 2015 by crhodges

Writers are accustomed to rejection. Even superstar writers often earned many a rejection slip in their early days.  Stephen King’s first novel was rejected dozens of times; Ray Bradbury had 1000s of short stories rejected. While I am not in … Continue reading →

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Rejection #196: Another contest

Posted on January 14, 2014 by crhodges

I entered “Wobble” into an extremely prestigious writing contest and guess what, it didn’t win.  Or place or show.  It happens, part of the whole shoot-for-the-moon aspects. Oh well, that counts as rejection number 196. Four more to my 200 rejection … Continue reading →

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Rejection #195: They’re coming fast now

Posted on January 10, 2014 by crhodges

Rejection number 195 came right on the heels of number 194.  Too fast for comfort. A nice long note for “Crazy,” another one of my valkyrie short stories, but a form letter for sure, because I’ve been rejected by this … Continue reading →

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Rejection #194: Short answer

Posted on January 9, 2014 by crhodges

Rejection #194 (of my countdown to 200 short story rejections) was from a very established, high quality dark fiction outlet that I had only recently run across. A very short answer: “Thank you for sending “Faro,” but I decided not … Continue reading →

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Rejection #193, and a Win

Posted on January 5, 2014 by crhodges

Rejection #193 arrived simultaneously with a Win.  Or at least a Place. I had entered “The Trillionaire” in a writing contest, with the modest entry fee going to an on-line charity.  After entering, I realized that I could enter a … Continue reading →

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Rejection countdown: #191

Posted on December 16, 2013 by crhodges

Rejection number 191 of my Countdown to 200 Rejections arrived quickly, on “Ghosts of the Texians,” with little fanfare and no straws to grasp at. From an fledgling zine no less. “Thank you for letting us read Ghosts of the … Continue reading →

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Query is a five letter word

Posted on November 24, 2013 by crhodges

Query is the most dreaded five-letter word in all of writer-dom.  Despite its innocuous name, a query is a malevolent process created by evil sadists intent on breaking the spirit of aspiring writers.  A query letter is the first step … Continue reading →

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Learning from those 100 rejections

Posted on October 28, 2013 by crhodges

A million years ago, or more likely last year, I wrote a series of blogs on my Rejection countdown to 100, whereby I rather narcissistically counted down rejections 91 through 100 for my short stories. Didn’t take too long to … Continue reading →

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Done is better than perfect sometimes even applies to writers

Posted on March 18, 2013 by crhodges

Buried in all the articles about Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, a mention about a sign on her wall at Facebook that reads “Done is better than perfect” or some such caught my eye.  In the software universe this is the … Continue reading →

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