This Week We're Talking About Rejection

Join us on the page and for a live video chat as we share helpful advice on how to get back out there after having your pitches passed on, and more.

Lately, we’ve been thinking a lot about every writer’s favorite subject: rejection. So, we’ve decided to spend the whole week writing and talking about it in various ways. How do we manage it emotionally? Does it get easier as we go? Are there strategies we can implement? As both writers and editors, everyone on the Narratively team really feels the pain of rejection from all sides: It’s never fun to pass on a story, especially one we really like but feel just isn’t the right fit for us, and even though we understand what goes into rejecting something, it still often stings when we’re on the other side.

On that note, tomorrow we’ll bring you a craft piece about how to take rejections well and keep going — with expert advice from four prolific and successful writers, including Parisa Saranj, a longtime editor at literary magazine Consequence Forum.

And this Thursday, July 24, at 1 p.m., I’m super excited to be speaking to Parisa for this week’s Open Book, which — you know it — is all ab…