How to Become a Freelance Writer : How to Handle Rejection as a Freelance Writer

[jetrules2005]

this is always a problem with dealing with rejection but you.just have to keep on going.

[MultiSmartass1]

Iam sorry Rebecca but your writing is you and if your writing sucks, it means you suck as a writer. It doesn't mean you suck as a human being but you may suck as a writer.

You can get better, you can get smarter, you can get more experience.

Strangely, rejection didn't phase me as much in my younger years as a writer. Primarily because if i get rejected by one publication, I had an article to write for another. I drowned my sorrows in work.

[MultiSmartass1]

@MultiSmartass1 What's hard is the second level of rejection: on the job. When you write an article and it then gets rejected by editors, that's the worst because you will lose potential income.

The worst case of rejection I ever faced was picking up a newspaper I was writing for in Seattle and seeing that my article had been written by someone else. I got bumped off. Shockingly, this paper didn't see fit to notify me of this ahead of time.

[sweeleemesa]

have you taken any courses to become a freelance writer?