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What a great tactic for turning negatives into positives. And another reminder that community is vitally important for writers and all other humans.

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Hi Victoria, Thanks for mentioning Inlandia's 100 Rejections Club. Hope your readers will check out the free Substack connected to the club: https://100rejectionsclub.substack.com. And congrats on the rejection from the top-tier journal. I admire your courage to submit! Erin

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Yeah, it was a crazy submission, but why not? Now I need to add that rejection to the 100 rejections club! 1/100! And 1/100 submissions. Onward and upward!

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I enjoyed this! Great noxious examples, and two very inspiring opportunities....I could not imagine 100 rejections in a year. The children's book I wrote has gotten three no-thank-you's from agents....do they count?

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Any literary rejection counts, so yes. Some people are querying agents, others are submitting short work to journals, etc. I’m behind on the whole thing, but I submitted five pieces in February, so the group is helping me to get things out there. Got one rejection and it was from a literary agent. Kudos to you for for getting your children’s book out there!

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Good work to have 5 in Feb., and it was a short month. You encourage me.

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My job involves having an overview of all the grant submissions (and outcomes) of a university-based public health institute. The people who have the most funded grants also have quite a few rejections. They aren't indiscriminately applying, but they are in the game - a game in which a lot of quality work gets a no. Doing this for 10 years was great training for fiction writing. Now the only rejections that really bum me out are the ones that happen when I don't have anymore pending submissions. And when I get a personal rejection from a publication I admire? It feels great, because I know they mostly say no - and at least they bothered to say something.

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It is a great idea to have something in the queue. And personal rejections do give me a sense that I'm close. So--now we go!

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I'm with you - I don't need to be pepped up by my throat lozenge!

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Right? 😆

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