Comments on: When Rejection is Necessary, or I Reject All the Fear https://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/09/when-rejection-is-necessary-or-i-reject-all-the-fear/ A Blog On Writing Sun, 02 Feb 2025 07:20:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Writing Links…10/1/14 | All Twangs Romance https://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/09/when-rejection-is-necessary-or-i-reject-all-the-fear/#comment-61546 Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:33:19 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=15133#comment-61546 […] https://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/09/when-rejection-is-necessary-or-i-reject-all-the-fear/ […]

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]]> By: suzanne jay https://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/09/when-rejection-is-necessary-or-i-reject-all-the-fear/#comment-61051 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:37:47 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=15133#comment-61051 In reply to msheatherwebb.

Thank you, Heather!! Good luck on your WIP and I'm looking forward to reading your books.

]]> By: msheatherwebb https://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/09/when-rejection-is-necessary-or-i-reject-all-the-fear/#comment-61009 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:53:02 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=15133#comment-61009 In reply to Jennifer Austin - Author.

Wishing you loads of success and faith as you query, Jennifer. 🙂 And yeah, we're a little crazy. Someone has to be, right?

]]> By: msheatherwebb https://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/09/when-rejection-is-necessary-or-i-reject-all-the-fear/#comment-61006 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:51:06 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=15133#comment-61006 In reply to suzanne jay.

Hooray for falling in love! I fall in love all over again, every time I start a new book. Sometimes it comes swiftly and others, my characters have to court me. That's the case with my current work in progress. Sending you loads of courage!!!

]]> By: msheatherwebb https://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/09/when-rejection-is-necessary-or-i-reject-all-the-fear/#comment-61003 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:41:47 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=15133#comment-61003 In reply to ericjbaker.

Very well said, Eric. A clueless dreamer and a deluded idiot...I remember feeling that way in particular, when I first started telling my friends and family that I was a "writer". The look that would cross their faces really tweaked me. It said, "Yeah, sure. Good luck with that. Everyone wants to write a book." But I bucked up and pushed through the angst and fear and hurt. It's the only way to seize any dream, frankly. Publishing is no different.

Thanks for your comment, and hey, power on. Looking forward to seeing your stories circulate.

]]> By: ramblingsfromtheleft https://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/09/when-rejection-is-necessary-or-i-reject-all-the-fear/#comment-61000 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:39:28 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=15133#comment-61000 Heather, thanks for this great post and for quoting one of my favorite poets. I am still at the submission stage ... editing and "fixing" what I thought was wrong with one book, while I continue to write another. My way of dealing with all of this insanity is to keep writing and I craft. When my hands are busy, my mind is at rest. Then I can go back and tackle the work again.

About genre pushing ... I will always be in that particular boat. I write in different genres as a rule, not just on a whim. I toggle back and forth between forms of romance or WF to mysteries and suspense. I have even taken a trip into the spirit world.

The greatest challenge we all face is to continue to write. Tomorrow is my birthday and I am sure I am heads and years above so many who come here, many who I call writer friends ... I came to this life late and often I ask myself ... why didn't you just stick to crafts or find a less complicated way to spend your retirement? But no matter how late this passion grabs us, no matter how long it takes to realize the dream, it is worth every second. Thanks again and keep experimenting with your voice 🙂

]]> By: msheatherwebb https://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/09/when-rejection-is-necessary-or-i-reject-all-the-fear/#comment-60997 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:34:52 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=15133#comment-60997 In reply to Lanice James.

I hope you're all fired up and ready to go, Lanice! Thanks for stopping by.

]]> By: Jennifer Austin - Author https://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/09/when-rejection-is-necessary-or-i-reject-all-the-fear/#comment-60991 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:25:11 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=15133#comment-60991 Writing anything for me (and most writers) is a rejection of fear. We aren't paid up front for our craft, but gamble our time, talent and energy on a career that may or may not lead to something. Writers are some of the bravest—and craziest—people I know. We have to be; no sane person would do this job! 🙂 But dealing with rejection can be very difficult, though my experience has been fairly limited. Not because of success, but because I have yet to stick my proverbial neck out too far. That's about to change as I'll be querying my novel very soon. After that, I will have a much better grasp on the pitfall that is rejection.

]]> By: Marianna Crane https://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/09/when-rejection-is-necessary-or-i-reject-all-the-fear/#comment-60988 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:52:28 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=15133#comment-60988 In reply to Orly Konig-Lopez.

Thanks

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