I know, I know. Celebrate rejections? Who likes being rejected? I admit when I first started seriously writing back in 2002, I was told to expect not just some but tons of rejections. Of course, being all excited about my decision to write my first novel, I figured I could deal with it. But actually getting the rejections at first did hurt. I felt like this: Or even like this: Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, once shared this about what she learned about rejections: Life lesson learned as a child: My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. Read more: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/219367#ixzz2WRD0M8mA Also from A YEAR OF WRITING DANGEROUSLY by Barbara Abercrombie: 25. Failing better: A couple writers I know have a quote by Samuel
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