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Think you're the only one who gets rejection notices? Well...think again...

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DirtyMartini
Rest in Peace
I know there are a ton of threads on the subject of scoring, and rejection notices, and negative reviews, and all that stuff...

Anyway, just had to post this somewhere...in other words, there will always be haters, so consider that when someone comes along and gives you that lonely 2 vote...and listen to Stephen, he has some good stuff to say...after all, who am I to argue?

“I have spent a good many years since--too many, I think--being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.”
― Stephen King, On Writing

“Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.”
― Jeffrey Robinson

“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

I once knew a drinker who had a moderating problem...