Not: You might be rejected.
Not: Youâll have a few rejections.
Not Even: Well, if youâre only mid-list worthy youâll have at least twenty rejections.
You want to get published? Fine. You need to accept that every single day of your career will have rejection.
Everything you write will be rejected.
Every book you publish will be hated.
Every character you love will be degraded.
Every hour you put in â the blood and sweat and tears â will be dismissed as ââŠtalentless hack who doesnât know how to string a sentence together.â
Millions of people will never read your book because they canât read at all.
Millions of people will never read your book because they donât speak the same language as you.
Millions of people will never read your book because they hate your genre.
Millions of people will never read your book because they donât like fe/male authors.
Millions of people will never read your book because they didnât get into it.
Billions of people will reject your work. They will mock you. They will dismiss you. They will talk trash about you.
It doesnât matter. You arenât writing for the millions. You are writing for the one.
The one person who tells you your book made them cry because it spoke to them.
The one person who tells you your book changed the way they saw the world.
The one person who tells you your book was the only light in a dark time.
The one person who tells you your book inspired them to be something more.
You are writing for them.
They will wish they could take your characters to prom.
They will read your book after their motherâs funeral.
They will curl up in bed with your book on a cold night after their first real break up.
They will turn to those pages time and again to revisit the places they love.
Youâre going to get rejected. And youâre going to take that punch square on the chin and not ever back down because you know who you are writing for. Because you know it takes more than a pretty font to make a book work, you have to be willing to take the rejections. You have to go into this knowing you will fail a million times with a million readers, and that it doesnât matter because you arenât writing for them.
Keep your chin up. You are someoneâs favorite author even if they donât know it yet.
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