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Join NOW!I find Lisa Carver’s bracing words about rejection fun to read but painful to put in practice. Here’s some scientific proof that rejection physically hurts. What makes me feel better about rejection? Reading about how it was meted out to writers I admire. This site’s a gold mine. Seeing the numbers of rejections juxtaposed with […]
...moreChloe Caldwell, Rumpus contributor and author of the essay collection Legs Get Led Astray, comes out with “The New Age Camp,” a new e-book from Thought Catalog. Get ready for “a summer of Reiki healing, menstrual moon cycle charts, trance dances, junk food, borrowed clothes, teen girl angst, and ultimately emotional growth.”
...moreThere’s a lot of writing-themed rejection stories around, or at least ones about fleeting publishing fortune. In the spirit of trying and giving up, publishing house frustrations and then reflecting on the whole emotional whirlwind of the publishing experience, there is this new Thought Catalog essay. It’s about one young writer’s personal experience attempting to […]
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