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

Learn how to handle rejection as a professional freelance writer with expert freelancing advice in this free job skills video clip.

Expert: Rebecca Sato
Contact: www.zenlife.net
Bio: Rebecca Sato has been a science and health researcher for the past few years. Her goal is to teach people to live a long and healthy life.
Filmmaker: joseph wilkins

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• freelance
• writing
• hobbyist
• columnist
• writer
• editor
• copywriter
• profession
• career
• job
• skills

[jetrules2005]

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

[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.

[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.

[sweeleemesa]

have you taken any courses to become a freelance writer?