I need some help, folks.
I've had a reasonably successful writing career over the past 20 years. I have two published creative nonfiction books, seven national writing awards, and earn a six-figure income as a freelance writer.
That said, I recently completed a novel and am finding it more difficult than ever to approach agents, even though I've been around this block before. Instead of inuring me to rejection, my age and experience seem to have had the opposite effect: I'm simply tired of it, and something in me recoils from the continuous assault on the ego. Call it rejection fatigue.
At the same time, I really want to get this novel out, as well as the future books I have up my sleeve. How do other people, whether veterans or relative newbies, deal with this rejection fatigue?
Thanks in advance,
Freelance
I've had a reasonably successful writing career over the past 20 years. I have two published creative nonfiction books, seven national writing awards, and earn a six-figure income as a freelance writer.
That said, I recently completed a novel and am finding it more difficult than ever to approach agents, even though I've been around this block before. Instead of inuring me to rejection, my age and experience seem to have had the opposite effect: I'm simply tired of it, and something in me recoils from the continuous assault on the ego. Call it rejection fatigue.
At the same time, I really want to get this novel out, as well as the future books I have up my sleeve. How do other people, whether veterans or relative newbies, deal with this rejection fatigue?
Thanks in advance,
Freelance