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Originally Posted by crich70
Conversely I wonder how many 'great' authors of the past were told that they had no skill for writing and still went on to have many books published later.
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Here are some answers to your wonder.
http://www.litrejections.com/best-se...ally-rejected/
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Rejection is an imperative test of one’s character
Some writers continually submit the same manuscript until it is accepted. Others chose to do a more polished draft before sending it out again. A select few learn from the lessons of submissions, to write a completely new book.
What they all have in common is a persistence to never give up on their dream; a dream that has elevated them from writer, to best-selling author.
They have written some of the most critically praised and commercially successful books of all time. In some cases their enormous sales were so consistent that they even kept their publishers afloat.
Yet in spite of this phenomenal success, every single one of these best-selling authors was initially rejected. Literary agents and publishers informed them in an endless stream of rejection letters that nobody would be interested in reading their book.
Here is an extenstive collection of the some of the biggest errors of judgement in publishing history.
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