How to cope with rejection
This is for unpublished authors everywhere – and a few editors.
About Danuta Kean
Danuta Kean is a freelance journalist and publishing commentator, whose work appears in national media, including The Financial Times, Independent on Sunday and Daily Mail. She also writes about music, film and the creative industries, and is a lecturer on the MA in Creative Writing at Brunel University.
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Posted by Richard Havers on 12 July 2007
It reminds me ever so slightly of one of my unfulfilled ambitions (possibly too strong a word but it’ll do). Back when I had a proper job I dreamed of sending not a resignation letter but a resignation 45 rpm record – a copy of Johnny Paycheck’s country classic, ‘Take this job and shove it.’
Posted by Danuta Kean on 13 July 2007
I LOVE it! I wish I had a job I hated just so I could send it…well, maybe not. But it’s a great fantasy. And one way to get you through a day with awful people.
Posted by Jane Gordon-Cumming on 25 July 2007
Love it, Danuta! It’s currently doing the rounds of the Oxford Writers’ Group and the Transisters.
Posted by Writer Girl on 8 September 2007
This reminds me of H.L. Menken’s letter ‘To All Who Would Criticise [or reject] Me’. It goes a bit like this:
Dear xxx, I am sitting in the smallest room in my house [and you know what that room is] with your letter of criticism before me. Very soon it will be behind me. H.L. Menken
Posted by Danuta Kean on 10 September 2007
That is just fabulous! Thank you dx
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