Next Time You Want To Give Up On Writing
By Susan
@HazySue (39268)
Gouverneur, New York
February 17, 2018 12:17pm CST
The next time you feel down and out about having a piece of your writing rejected just take a minute or two to read the image I have provided.
Each and every person on this list has received a rejection letter concerning a piece of their writing. Some of them several times by different publishing companies.
So next time you think to yourself, I can't stand it any more. Next time you decided you are just going to give up writing. Just look at this list of famous authors who have been where you are now.
Don't give up. Sometimes it is not your writing. Sometimes it's the wrong person reading it.
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
18 Feb 18
@crazyhorseladycx Thanks Crazy, I know you always fight my corner
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
18 Feb 18
aw, but'cha should, sweet lady! yer works're a national treasure that ought be shared with the world ~ 
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@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
17 Feb 18
I don't write professionally and I don't think I'm good at it so I never really thought of becoming one.
But this is one good piece of advice that applies not only to a writer but to those who are trying to do something in their life.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
20 Feb 18
I was discouraged from writing all the time, but I always came back to it. I just couldn't stay away.
After I learned how to make my own cover art and format ebooks for self-publishing, it's what I do. I'm still in the fledgling stage, but yesterday I made $25 in profits, so I'm getting close to my goals, little by little. Today I've made about $2... oh well. The day isn't over yet! XD
I figure I need about 100 more short stories before I can accomplish my immediate goal.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
21 Feb 18
@OneOfMany that is wonderful. Good luck and keep on plugging.0
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@m_audrey6788 (58472)
• Germany
17 Feb 18
Very inspiring message there 
It can help a lot of writers to never give up 
It can help a lot of writers to never give up 7 people like this
@m_audrey6788 (58472)
• Germany
18 Feb 18
@HazySue So true my friend We all needed some inspiration to build up our positive outlook in life and never give up on something we enjoy to do
We all needed some inspiration to build up our positive outlook in life and never give up on something we enjoy to do 4 people like this
@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
17 Feb 18
rejections ne'er bothered me. i dribbled (wrote proper when such'd deemed necessary) more so fer myself. that bein' said, 'tis true what'cha say. catch'em'n a day when they're hurried/disgruntled, etc 'n such ne'er gets a decent review. they read such'n other places 'n all 'f a sudden, they're givin' ya a ring. 'r so'd 't been back'n the day. not certain how such works'n these modern times?
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
18 Feb 18
That's so true. There are many different reasons why someone's work is rejected. One day the person may read it and think it's garbage because they are having a bad day. But,, catch them on a good day and the same person may think the writer is a genius.
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@just4him (317041)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
19 Feb 18
@HazySue I've never given up on writing, but I did give up trying to be traditionally published. It's not that I don't like reject letters, but really who does, but that the more I was rejected, and the more I learned, the more I found out traditional publishers prefer picking up people who are self-published with a following. So, that's what I'm doing - trying to get a following - those who are buying my books.
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
23 Feb 18
@HazySue That is so true. I have read some things and not liked them and if I reread them later on I wondered how I ever thought they were not good. Most of the times I think back on my day when I did read them and realize I had some issues that put me in a weird mood.
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@Spontaneo (14700)
• United States
17 Feb 18
Do you ever take siestas? I find when I have a siesta or two during the day, I do better at my writing...
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@GardenGerty (160665)
• United States
18 Feb 18
Sometimes the words just have to keep on spilling out until you have said it all.
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@HazySue (39268)
• Gouverneur, New York
23 Mar 18
@runningthegalaxies that's my mantra. I write and write and write.
@runningthegalaxies (324)
• United States
22 Mar 18
Keep on writing whatever comes to your mind. We can always edit later, but in the moment, just write, they say.
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@snowy22315 (180703)
• United States
18 Feb 18
An editorial assistant fished JK ROwlings manuscript out of the trash..and thus a dynasty was born! I think if I was JK, I would buy that lady a house!!
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@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
18 Feb 18
I am happy to read your discussion. I think it is good to share this to other writers so they will stop and think about this and maybe hold on to their dreams as a writer and not give up but move forward and continue writing and eventually, one day, knock on wood, get something they have written, published.
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