The Stafford Scribe » Angela Swanlund http://pattistafford.com/blog Write What You Love, Love What You Write! Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:55:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Pain of Rejection http://pattistafford.com/blog/2009/03/the-pain-of-rejection/ http://pattistafford.com/blog/2009/03/the-pain-of-rejection/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:16:15 +0000 Patti Stafford http://writerspay.com/?p=118

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, or it seems like it does.

Enjoy Angela’s article:
Dealing With Rejection

Happy Writing!
Patti Stafford

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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 been predicting some of this stuff for years.

Read Angela’s Blog, A-List Decline

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Patti Stafford

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