I began to set aside time each week to submit. However, this didn’t mean I began submitting blindly. I would carefully study the newsletters of journals, do Google searches, read the Submittable weekly mailer and search the site, the Poets and Writers newsletter, and save competitions that arose on Facebook. Then I would take the time to read the journal I wanted to submit to and decide if my work was appropriate or needed to be rewritten, or if I needed to review my own body of work to find something that may fit a theme call-out. By doing this for an hour or two, two or three days a week, I built up to 101 rejections.
Rejections serve an important purpose. Learning how to use them to your advantage is key in building a sustainable writing life.
How to Write a Memoir: Top Tips from Best Selling Ghostwriters,, Reedsy
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I didn’t actually say that. Not sure why Reedsy put it below my actual quote. : )