By Muib Shefiu
“Dear writer, be consistent; read aggressively and write when you can. A drop of your sweat might not immediately become an ocean but it will definitely be”
At times, your best article that yanked away your sweet sleep and invaluable time will be cheered with rejection. It is a shock that one has to deal with for hours if not days; pondering on where it gets wrong.
Dear writer, Rejection and acceptance in writers’ lives are like day and night; they are inevitable. Rejections are motivations behind every success story of most writers. Look here! Your success lays in the right attitude to rejection; it can either make you or mar you. It can either build you or break you. The choice is yours.
Dear writer, be consistent; read aggressively and write when you can. A drop of your sweat might not immediately become an ocean but it will definitely be.
Ask Canfield and Hansens About their world-class book, Chicken Soup for the souls, they will tell you it was rejected one hundred and fourteenth time (114). You can mail Rowlings, she will tell you how her manuscripts were rejected fifteenth times (15). And you gave up writing because of a few Mails that praised your work before rejecting it?
What if Canfield and Hansels give up on the 115th time or Rowlings give up on 15th time? History would have definitely failed to capture their names and their efforts would have gone down the drain.
Remember, your consistency, determination and personal development are the passwords to achieve that feat.
Stand up! Your right is to write and write rightly.
Muib Shefiu is a professional English language pedagogue, a Journalist, a storyteller, an essayist and a freelance writer. He can be reached on muibshefiu@gmail.com
