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Writing

Fear of Rejection

A major fear of writers is being rejected, the scientific term for this is atychiphobia.  My personal belief is that independent writers feel it more because we don’t receive a professional validation from a publisher prior to releasing a piece of work.  Recently a colleague of mine called me on my own personal “atychiphobia”. Like… Continue reading Fear of Rejection

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Self-Publishing

Publisher’s rejection letters and why you shouldn’t worry about them

“You know how they say that all creative people – authors, artists, etc – have big egos and if they get criticized or rejected, their ego is getting hurt? Yes, it's true, creative individuals do have big egos. They have to have it to do what they do. But it's not their ego that they… Continue reading Publisher’s rejection letters and why you shouldn’t worry about them