I do agree it takes a great deal of courage to submit your first article or story. Most first efforts are doomed for rejection, but if you don’t send the first, you’ll never send the second or the third, etc.
While I suppose it would serve as an incentive to frame your first rejection letter, please, let that incentive be to work harder to get your first acceptance letter, not to gather as many rejections as you possibly can. Then, once you get your first acceptance, replace that first rejection letter with your first acceptance letter and strive to get as many of those as you can.
Getting your first rejection does not create a writer. People who get rejected are a dime a dozen in any facet of life. Why strive for it? It is what you do with yourself after you get that dreaded rejection letter that matters. You have, after all, taken that first step in sending out your first written piece to be critiqued in whatever manner the editor chooses.
The rejection letter arrives after you have waited for what has seemed forever. Do you cuss the editor for not realizing what a prize they are passing up, swear you will never write again, or do you give your work a serious look, find what is lacking, fix it and send it on it’s way to the next editor to review?
It’s a simple rite of passage, accepting that as a writer you are fallible, that the editor is busy and their comments are impersonal. Yet, despite the fact that the first rejection hurts your ego, you stay persistant in your endeavors as a writer. Now that, my friends, is what takes a hopeful writer and creates a successful writer.
How to submit my writing somewhere and receive a rejection letter (which I will then get framed and hang on my wall)
It made me
Cool. 
How I did it: The publisher took twice as long as stated in the submission guidelines to get back to me, but they did get back. So, my advice to other is PATIENCE.
Lessons & tips: Be patient.
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Because rejection is the first step to success!
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Or, uh, something like that. Well, like I said on my blog, you aren’t really a writer until you’ve gotten a rejection letter! It takes a little courage to actually submit your writing. So, this is my New Year’s resolution (or one of them).
I want to get as many people as possible to join me. So join me, people, and together we’ll collect enough rejection letters to—uh, well, I’m sure we could do something with them. Origami? A mosaic?
