Rejection Archives - Charlotte Rains Dixon

Get Rid of Your Fear of Rejection Once and For All

Rejection. It is a fact of the writer’s life. I wish I could tell you that this was not so. I wish I could tell you that everything you send off would get picked up immediately. But I can’t. It is just not the way the world works. And so, alas, if you are a […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 8 years ago11/04/2015

Rejection

How Many Times Has Your Writing Been Rejected?

Last night, one of the members of my writing group got married. All but one of the current members of the group were there, and a couple former members turned up as well. Talk turned, as it will amongst such groups, to rejection. Soon we were attempting to outdo each other with how many rejections […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 12 years ago

Rejection

7 Steps to Handle Rejection

I do my best to stay positive about writing. I feel lucky every day that my passion is writing, and I think most of you do, too. So even on days when I feel like I have a million things to grouse about, I try to find a way to be positive about something. Because […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 12 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Rejection: Tempting the Fates

So, I wrote a post about Michael Phelps last week and how he used rejection and ridicule (who's laughing now, twitty teenagers who made fun of him? Huh? Huh?) to spur himself on. I mentioned that perhaps we writers could take a page from ol' Michael's book and use that same technique when we get […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Take A Hint From Michael Phelps

I adore Michael Phelps almost as much as I love his mother. I think I just love seeing the two of them together because it reminds me of my relationship with my own adored son, Lewis. There's just something so unique about that mother-son relationship. Of course, the mother-daughter relationship is special and unique also […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 15 years ago11/03/2015