#0083 A Return to Rejection; Or,
Why do we keep putting ourselves through this misery?
Here at 100 Rejections Club, we embrace rejection. Through speedruns and dating games, from reframing failure to rethinking the almighty journal editor, we take rejection in stride.1
But sometimes? It’s okay to pause and reflect. To feel the feels. Just don’t get stuck in the pit of despair,2 okay?
Because you might not actually be exhausted by the rejections.3 Like the kitten in the photo, sometimes you are sleepy from romping around and need a nap.
Next time: Submission guidelines are suggestions, right?
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Cue this scene.
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Don’t believe everything you read on the interwebs, friends, not even all my captions!
the post is right and it's been a week of 'not even submitting' to a few journals that are just downright bad and wondering why i even submitted to a few who i couldn't bear to read(is anyone else worried about some journals with weird or unreasonable terms?)...
writers want to be read and poets want to poet...but it's spring street sweeping time in our city and sometimes i think we shouldn't feel too bad being rejected when some of the lit journals out there need either a major overhaul or to be swept away(blessings in disguise--thank god i was rejected)...that's why i really appreciate the good ones and the good editors...i keep going back to a lot of the work in journals like inlandia's and soflopojo's and other american sites and it's the ones i go back to and read the work, that an acceptance means more from...any more editorial perspectives on why some journals have such a long wait between publishing work and then publishing again? some have waiting periods of up to 5 years ad so i can understand the need for new voices...but...but...isn't that a long spread?
many thanks, always look forward to new words from 100 rejections, thank you vm.