JK Rowling says she was rejected 11 times before someone took a chance on her. You need persistence and a whole lot of luck too.
JK Rowling says she was rejected 11 times before someone took a chance on her. You need persistence and a whole lot of luck too.
Yeah, I am familiar with her story - how she wrote her first book in MacDonalds when she came back from Spain after her divorce. In his book, Steven King goes at length about that experience as he was rejected countless times and how he valued rejection notes that had at least something personal in them.
He mentioned about the case when he submitted a story to a magazine and got a rejection letter. Later in life, he submitted the same story to the same magazine and it was accepted. His comment was something like this "you'll find the editors much less inclined to send you a rejection letter if you are already an established writer." )