If you’ve been writing very long you know about rejection.  It really doesn’t matter how you’ve been writing either–you’re going to get rejections.  One of the most painful parts of rejections happens when they come in waves.  I’ve received more than my share lately.  It’s reminded me that Stephen King received an ungodly amount of rejections before his big break, and it also reminded me of a post that Angela Swanlund did recently.
But even knowing all of this, the sting of rejection still takes a little bit of soul away, …

Angela recently posted about the decline of the A-Listers and how they are throwing in the towel from all this blogging madness.
She states:
Content whore. Paid advertising flunkie. Queen of the 3 paragraph 87% key word dense blog post. Princess of the unlimited pen name. I’ve been called all of the above – and worse.
Where does that leave those of us still trying to forge a blog and a name for ourselves?  Angela has opinions on that too.  Angela and I have partnered on many projects over the years.  Ironically, she’s …