Article: Dealing With Discouragement
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Dealing With Discouragement
I can?t name a single writer whose career has been without discouragement. We?ve all dealt with rejections, non-responses, bad reviews, losing a contest we were sure we?d win, having someone laugh at us when we share our career goals...
What sets apart the successful writers from the unsuccessful ones, in part, is the way we deal with these discouragements.
Let?s take a pretty common scenario. You?ve written something (a novel, screenplay, essay, short story, poetry collection, whatever) and you?ve sent it out ten times. All ten recipients either reject it or don?t respond at all. How do you react?
1. You yell, cry, wallow in pity, eat HoHos, etc.
2. You vow never to write again.
3. You grit your teeth and say, ?I?ll show them. The...
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