{"id":633,"date":"2009-06-07T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/rejected-7.html"},"modified":"2009-06-07T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T18:34:00","slug":"rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejected! :-("},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/SiwJnCwpssI\/AAAAAAAACmQ\/NvatoXx4WEs\/s1600-h\/rejected.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 328px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/SiwJnCwpssI\/AAAAAAAACmQ\/NvatoXx4WEs\/s400\/rejected.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344657424142414530\" \/><\/a><br \/>I received a rejection letter yesterday from an editor at Harlequin Enterprises. She gave some useful comments, and told me to submit something else.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the midst of working on another project now for submission elsewhere, but I do plan on submitting another Christian romance to them again in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Rejection is a terrible thing, but it can be a good thing, too. Sometimes editors can give you tips on making your work even better. Also, rejection teaches patience!<\/p>\n<p>You know, back in the first five years of my writing career, when I received a rejection, I was usually devestated! However, I believe, over the years, my skin has thickened and rejections don&#8217;t hurt as much as they used to! Although, rejections can still leave you feeling a tad bit disappointed!<\/p>\n<p>Any writers (either published or unpublished) reading this? What do you do when you get rejected? How do you feel?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\">~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a rejection letter yesterday from an editor at Harlequin Enterprises. She gave some useful comments, and told me to submit something else. I&#8217;m in the midst of working on another project now for submission elsewhere, but I do plan on submitting another Christian romance to them again in the near future. Rejection is [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rejections","category-writing-related-posts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saovYP-rejected","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}