I was totally bummed. I feel like I can’t win with this dang book! One day I get a great piece of news, the next I get a rejection. (Hopefully, as a writer you know that having an agent isn’t the end all. It doesn’t mean your book will easily get published once you sign. I think that’s a misconception out there).

Anyway, it was interesting because that same day I read a blog from Rachelle Gardner. She is an agent and has one of the best blogs out there on writing (I’m not the only one who feels this way; the blog was voted a 101 top website for writers by Writer’s Digest). The blog discussed how subjective writing is. Often writers complain about how many garbage books get published (I know I’ve done this). To which she made an excellent point that there’s music we don’t like, clothes we won’t wear, food we won’t eat, and so on. Writing is subjective. What is art to one person might be trash to another.

And so, even with the rejections coming, as a writer you have to keep going, knowing that someday someone will see what you see in your writing and they’ll want to buy it. That’s what I keep telling myself anyway. What about you? What do you tell yourself when you receive those rejections? What keeps you going? I’d like to hear J

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

-Sandi

P.S. Rachelle is running a great contest right now. Write your pitch in a 100 words. The top 10 will get opportunities to blog on her site, which has huge traffic! Check her blog out!