If a publisher, magazine, agent, or client has rejected your submission, query, or project, keep the rejection slip.
If you keep taking rejection extremely personally, consider speaking to a counselor or therapist if you are suffering from depression, anxiety or other mental health issues, you might not have the resilience needed to cope with life's ongoing pressures and need added support.
I kept the rejection letters I got when I was applying for jobs as a recent graduate.
You go to a site with a genuine intention of getting work but in the end you can't keep facing the rejection.
Do not give in when you get a rejection, keep striving.
Don't let fear of rejection keep you from speaking or singing out loudly and proudly.
Should you say something, or keep quiet because rejection would ruin your one bastion from feeling like a cog in a machine?
Because monetarily it's a diminishing field, there still needs to be passion, and it's difficult to keep that when rejection prevails or often overshadows the beauty of the written word.
Lehane: Since the dawn of time, it's never changed -- learn how to write a good book, put your ten thousand hours of apprenticeship in, get used to rejection, keep at it.
Either they have taken on a role opposite to their natal features, or societal pressure and fear of rejection keep them from ever exploring the full expanses of their consciousness and potential at all, or at least not for many, many years.
