It hit me the other day (pun not intended) that getting rejected for a story is like being on the losing end of a snowball fight. Those first few hits really sting. The ice dribbles down your collar and you feel cold and disoriented.
Get hit by enough of them though, and eventually the sting goes away. The skin numbs. You don’t feel it as much. So you take a break, go inside, have some hot chocolate and revise and write some more, then come back outside and get hit again, fresh sting, fresh chill.
But hey…queries are like snowballs too. We get our own ammo to fling back, and hope that sometime, somehow, we might actually get a hit. Provoke a reaction. And we even have an advantage–because through our writing, our hooks and our stories, we can stick rocks in the middle of our snowballs and add a little more impact.
Can you tell that I’m ready for it to snow here? C’mon…middle of November and we’re just now getting chilly days. Oh well. Back to piling up some ammo.
I see that smile.