While re-reading Stephen King's "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft", I came across a story that showed how he handled rejection.
As an aspiring author, whenever King received a rejection slip from a publication he shoved it on a nail in his wall and got back to writing.
By the time he was 14, the nail no longer supported the weight of the rejection slips and he had to upgrade it to a big spike to hold all that were accumulating.
But he kept writing and submitting stories until he got his first big break.
By the way, King has written almost 100 books now and to nab some of his first editions you're going to have to shell out big bucks (A first edition of "Salem's Lot", with a pricing error on the cover, can be yours for just $60,000!)
I'm not suggesting that you nail a spike into your wall, but to see that rejection can be a positive thing.
It builds a thick skin, and every "no" brings you closer to a "yes" ...
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