A Writer's Notebook, Two-Thousand-And-One-Hundred-And-Twenty-Six
I feel quite good about the work I am doing right now, in terms of the writing itself, but I am still quite frustrated with things in other ways. It feels important to admit, for example, that I find rejection to be very difficult, and that much of, for me, what is most upsetting, is not simply getting a rejection but much of the structure that is built around the process and the inscrutability of it, as well. I find it impossible not to be deeply impacted when I get a rejection, but I also know that the reality is, I need to send out work and can't expect anything to change, really. I need a way to feel some sense of actual success towards my publishing and career goals, and those can't be measured by the results I have control over. Sending out more work would only matter if I had evidence that my rejection rate remained the same and I could get a certain number of acceptances for every x number submissions I sent out, but that's not been my experience with sen...