At least you sent it in! I haven’t even gotten to that point yet.

An acquaintenace told me recently that I should definitely submit something to “The New Yorker” because their rejection slip is worth having. LOL

He also said that P.G. Wodehouse papered his walls with rejection slips before he went on to seventy years of successful writing. I haven’t verified that statement but it sounds good! I thought I’d share.

Keep up the positive attitude. :)

... is first and foremost, to find the part inside of you that really enjoys writing and gets something out of it just for the sake of doing it. Then, of course, comes the polishing part, to which you allude in the “re-read after a while” – and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve completed a project feeling super-human, only to re-read it two months later and realize, “Mm. This isn’t all that great.” The point though, is to keep polishing it. A good friend of mine is launching her novel tomorrow, after 10 years of working on it and marketing it. The continual polishing paid off, as an agent and then a major publisher in New York finally picked up the novel and gave her a six-figure advance. The most important part to me is the 10 years she was willing to work and re-work the novel, though… I somehow don’t like to hear the words “Good luck with your writing” because they mean nothing to me; so instead I’ll say, “Much joy in the experience of your creativity” – for which you seem to have many avenues of expression.