# The horribly wonderful feeling of a rejection...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horribly-wonderful-feeling-of-a-rejection/51481>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 24, 2001, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horribly-wonderful-feeling-of-a-rejection/51481 "2001-01-24T00:08:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horribly-wonderful-feeling-of-a-rejection/51481/1 "2001-01-24T00:08:18Z")

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…letter. I got my first rejection letter from a company, about several poems I sent to them. I am so proud. I’m going to frame, and it’ll eventually be beside my first publication letter. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horribly-wonderful-feeling-of-a-rejection/51481/2 "2001-01-24T00:09:49Z")

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Oops, I meant I’m going to frame **it**. I’ve really got to start previewing.

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**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horribly-wonderful-feeling-of-a-rejection/51481/3 "2001-01-24T00:13:37Z")

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Well, Speaker for the Dead, you’re ahead of me. I’ve not yet gotten my stuff together to even consider sending for publication.  
However, that sucks, I’m sorry. But you know what they say…if at first you don’t succeed…

Best of luck to you! 🙂

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**Author:** ![The\_Thief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@The\_Thief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Thief)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horribly-wonderful-feeling-of-a-rejection/51481/4 "2001-01-24T00:19:59Z")

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It’s not you SotD.

God just hates you is all.

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**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horribly-wonderful-feeling-of-a-rejection/51481/5 "2001-01-24T01:26:44Z")

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Good for you **SotD**. More for the way you’re handling the event than the event itself, of course. Prolific, decorated, and surprisingly thin author T.C. Boyle did the same thing. Said he managed to paper a wall in his home (or was it his office?) with rejection letters. Now he has a wall covered with dust jackets from his books.

Well, 'nuff rambling from me. Better luck next time!

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**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-horribly-wonderful-feeling-of-a-rejection/51481/6 "2001-01-25T13:29:48Z")

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I think the worst part is that it cost me $.92 for postage 🙂 Yeah, there are about 5 other magazines I can send to, and I’m writing new stuff, so I’ll get in eventually, I hope 🙂