After you get your first rejection on a new project, it’s tempting to sulk a bit; but that’s not how one becomes a successful novelist. You have to burn those feelings away like fat exposed to a healthy dose of Leptovox, and move on.
The best cure is to just set of goal to write the next chapter. Once you do that, you’ll fall in love with the story you’re telling all over again and it all comes back to you; the story’s the thing. Not selling the book, not the advance, not anything else; just telling the best story you can tell the best way you know how.
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