The one thing that I felt I handled well were all the rejections to the book, but I think the reason why was because I wasn’t yet seriously considering myself as a writer. Rejection felt inevitable.
Tag: Wandering Bards
EP. 29 | caitlin stobie on nice rejections
With my poetry collection… I’d send it to places and they’d say it wasn’t quite right but then they would give some really nice feedback… and that’s what kept me going, because they actually took the time to tell me that so that probably is a good sign.
EP. 26 | yvonne battle-felton on rejection is not about you
I’ll always remember the first time I submitted something to The New Yorker and it was rejected and I was like, yeah, I got a rejection from The New Yorker, that’s pretty cool, and I was talking to a really good friend of mine, who is not a writer, and she was like, oh my gosh, what are you gonna do? Are you gonna stop writing? And I’m like, what are you talking about? They don’t send rejections to everybody… this is great!
Ep. 24 | Inés G. Labarta on Waking Up at 5am to Write
I really try to write first thing in the morning, before I do anything else, at least anything else that’s mental… because my brain is just too tired after a day of work.
EP. 17 | Inés G. Labarta on publishing as a multilingual writer
In this extract, Inés discusses how to write in a langue that is not your mother tongue and how to find publishers in different countries.
Ep. 11 | Ellie Moore
I paint a lot of the landscapes that I see as I’m hiking … sometimes it’s the view I get … More
Ep. 10 | Gary Budden
Whatever the mainstream narrative is, there may be some truth to that narrative but … there are always many other … More
Ep. 9 | Jen Allen and Jay Fortune
One of the reasons we move so much is that we look at the communities … when we moved to … More
Ep. 8 | Kirsty Logan
I do use made-up words in my fiction, peppered in amongst the English … for example, ‘gracekeeper’ is not a … More
On the Road, by Alicia J. Rouverol
On the Road to Ormskirk I find pavement I have driven before in another state, across a border, across an … More
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