{"id":1979,"date":"2012-01-11T15:06:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T20:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2012-01-11T15:06:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T20:06:38","slug":"wip-wednesday-is-rejected-not-dejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/wip-wednesday-is-rejected-not-dejected\/","title":{"rendered":"WIP Wednesday Is Rejected, Not Dejected"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first WIP Wednesday of the year and I have a rejection to report.<\/p>\n

I sent this same story out five times in 2011 but it didn’t find a home, so I put on the back burner until the new year when I could find a market that I felt it would suit.<\/p>\n

During another bout of insomnia the other night, I trolled Duotrope to find it a new home.<\/p>\n

I polished up the formatting, dashed off a quick cover letter, and sent it off. Unfortunately, later that afternoon I received a nice rejection with some feedback on the piece (there is such a thing as a nice rejection letter!).<\/p>\n

No matter how many stories I send out, I still get that twinge of anxiety before hitting the send button. The same with rejections — each one still smarts a little but that doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m going to stop sending them out.<\/p>\n

If anything, you need to look at each rejection as a failed relationship, and take away something that can improve your writing or at least give you some insight into what went wrong.<\/p>\n

So, I\u2019m still on the fence as to whether I\u2019ll rework it again before sending it out (it had been edited a few times during those five rejections), or whether I\u2019ll try another market first.<\/p>\n

Now, on to the WIPs.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m the first to admit that I haven\u2019t done as much writing in the new year as it would\u2019ve like to. Considering my epic list of stories that I want to tackle in 2012, I had hoped that I would\u2019ve made more progress already but I\u2019m allowing my old insecurities get in the way of this one story I’m working on.<\/p>\n

So decided to go back to it on my old habits, which is switching off all distractions while trying to write the first draft. This means using Leechblock<\/a>, and maybe even going back to handwriting the first draft because stories seem to come more organically to me when I do it that way and the last thing I want to do is sit at the computer all day, produce nothing, get dejected and give up without getting any words down.<\/p>\n

So there you have it. Down but not out. A minor blip on the radar. Moving onward and upward from here.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Fellow WIP Wednesday posse:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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