"Filing" Rejections Rejections are depressing, but why should we allow a letter to have so much control over us. The answers in this thread can be true or dreamed, but let's find ways to toss that depression away.
What's the most creative thing you've done with a rejection letter? Or, what would you like to do with them?
Have you wrapped your lunch in it? Given it to the dog to play with? Used it for dart practice?
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Re: "Filing" Rejections Most rejections I just file in a box with the master copy of a story. For my very first rejection I did something a little different and framed it.
I'm looking at it on my desk now, a nice little form letter from GlimmerTrain.
Re: "Filing" Rejections I don't do anything creative with them myself, just file them in the appropriate story folder. However I saw on one writer's webpage that she decoupages them onto her garbage can. There's a picture of it on the site--it's covered! If I can find it again I'll post a link.
And a fellow writer told me that in her circle of writing friends, they exchange names of editors and publishers who have rejected them. The name turns up in someone else's story, usually as a character who gets killed off in a particularly nasty way! I thought that was funny.
Sherry
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Re: "Filing" Rejections LOL!!! Oh that is pure evil! I love it!!!
I just have mine in a box. Though I did get a really nice rejection letter from Scholastic, it was suprising for such a big publishing company.
