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Rejection - My Forte

Rejection - My Forte

Rolling with the punches

by vivacious v (Wed Jan 27, 2010)
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Seems like I got this rejection thing down!

How about you others? Do you submit things that you feel are coming from your experience and really feel that others may like and enjoy? Are you wanting to share your life experiences with anyone that may benefit, only to find it never gets on the page?

My experiences have taught me to give people a chance. My experiences have taught me to listen with both ears and talk less. My life has taught me to not give a damn about anyone displaying rudeness and a quick reaction to things they really do not yet understand.

Rejection is a funny thing really. To me, it is saying that maybe I don't measure up, maybe I just don't have what it takes to be the one. Maybe I had a thought I could do something, I tried, and nope, I was rejected. Anyone getting that slam sure knows what that's like!

There are many areas in life a person such as myself can be rejected. The one most everyone might agree with and have experienced, is relationships. Another one is in the workplace. Then there is the one I am speaking of today, submitting a work about a life experience that...gee whiz...just doesn't quite cut it! I guess that it was not explosive enough, or grand, or another way of looking at this, it was just not good enough. It is like someone saying, ‘we are sorry, your experience was not good enough to make the cut.'

So as I toil on trying to create a life experience, or even an opinion that's good enough, I, of course, will wait for the rejection notice. I really didn't think there were levels of experiences. The person having the experiences, when they are knee deep in them, tends to believe that some of them could be life changing.

The person deciding on whether or not this ‘experience' qualifies, may not have any personal dealings with the type of experience submitted. They may not have the compassionate ear to hear the message. They may not believe it is worthy of page space.

My answer to that is: Let us see what the general readership thinks. After all, they are our audience, they are our cheerleaders for everyone submitting some writing on life happenings.

 

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Janie Emaus
Posted Wed Jan 27, 2010 at 6:01 pm Reply Delete
I could wallpaper my house with all my rejections slips from writing I've submitted. But I've learned not to take it personally and to keep on truckin"Report Abuse
Toni
Posted Wed Jan 27, 2010 at 4:47 pm Reply Delete
If it 's a written piece you just have to think of it like a business proposal. If someone rejects it, they may still like it but say it's not for their audience. Fair enough. Don't take it personally but if you really think it's good, try to find the right place for it. I recently had a proposal turned down that the editor actually called "well crafted" and "excellent". Pah!Report Abuse
Pearl
Posted Wed Jan 27, 2010 at 10:27 am Reply Delete
It seems to me people believe the rejection of their effort equals rejection of them. Not the same thing. Not being offered a job, say, doesn't mean they are unworthy as a person, just that there was a better suited candidate. Recent schooling has concentrated on being inclusive but at the cost of kids understanding that sometimes they will be rejected. Just look at these X Factor shows where people seem to think their efforts are worthy when they clearly are not and how devastated they are at the rejection. Any writer - self included - has had rejections -lots! Sometimes I've looked objectively and realised my work didn't measure up, sometimes it's just not chosen by a particular editor but snapped up by someone else. Sometimes I've had what I consider an inferior piece accepted over a piece I judged better. That's life. How many publishers turned dowwn JK Rowling? Who was it that turned down the Beatles etc etcReport Abuse
2 replies, Last reply by Dave on Wed Jan 27, 2010 at 4:31 pm
jo
Posted Wed Jan 27, 2010 at 11:26 am Reply Delete
@Noname: I was going to write a comment but Pearl has said exactly what I was thinking.Report Abuse
Dave
Posted Wed Jan 27, 2010 at 4:31 pm Reply Delete
@Dave: Good post. I just wrote about this same subject on my website last night. Rejection is terribly difficult, especially when your story is one you so heartily believe in. But, you can take that criticism and rejection and make it positive by innovatively altering your path and changing the methods you're using to achieve your goal. http://www.daveursillo.com/blog/for-dreamers-to-circle-the-wagons/Report Abuse

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