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Whenever your writing gets rejected, you shouldn't throw the controller across the room, and try to find the dog to yell at it. When you open the letter from the magazine you submitted to, or check your inbox for your electronic reply, you should just be calm. You shouldn't get frustrated when you get rejected, and you should instead look for any feedback that you get. It can be a blow to the ego, but it shouldn't be something that gets us frustrated.

The first reason why you shouldn't let your frustration show when you get rejected is because you usually do get rejected. This isn't a personal swipe at anyone, but the chances that you are going to get rejected are pretty good. Unless you are Stephen King, or some other famous author, or have had some really famous experience that you are writing about, you are going to get rejected.

Even if you have been hand-picked to write an article, it might still get rejected. You might still have to go back and revise your work, and have it done over to make it right. Writing is very odd like that, where the publisher needs something exact, and even still can be open to a lot of variation when you do submit your work, even if you do submit exactly to the details specified.

What are we really getting mad at here when we get rejected? Are we really worried about the ten dollar payday that we are missing out on simply because we got rejected? It is usually more a blow to the ego than it is to the wallet. I think the worst part about being rejected is the time that gets put into the article. Even if you put in just a couple of hours, that is still a long time to put in simply to see your work turned down.

There are so many articles that you are going to write during your time as a writer that it probably won't even make that big of a difference in the long run. It will be one of many rejected articles, but you will have just as many in a row accepted at some point in your life. The big breaks come by accident, and not because you are targeting publishers that you think you have a good shot at.

Whenever you get rejected, it isn't a big deal. It happens to all of us, and it happens to all of us often. If we get lucky enough to find someone who likes our work, then we are doing OK, and can claim victory. Writing is hard, and can be frustrating at times, but we have to learn to keep our cool, and keep working hard.

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