Dealing with rejection
I was at a gallery opening on Saturday night and friends kept coming up to me:
“Where is your work? why isn’t it in?”
And I had to confess:” I’ve been rejected.”
Now if you are an artist or writer you get used to it. Or you give up making work.
But how do you deal with rejection?
Well, you can toughen yourself up by trying The Rejection Generator Project:
http://stoneslidecorrective.com/?page_id=441,
It will send you emails automatically with scathing comments. Here’s some:
“Dear Writer,
I enjoyed reading the opening pages of your novel but you didn’t follow our submission guidelines. Prospective authroos must be at least sixteen years of age. Based on the chapters you sent us,, I doubt you are older than ten.”
Or
“Dear Artist
We can see all the work, care, ane even love that you’ve put into this piece, which makes it harder to tell you that we won;’t be accepting it.
this is hard for us, because we just can’t stop laughing….All tht work, aall the devotions of your soul and your heart, and you produce this?”
I think you get the drift.
As Nietzche said:
“That which does not kill us make us stronger.”
