Rejection

[Starkers]

My latest attempt at a Future Shock hasn't passed muster, yet curiously I'm quite pleased about this, for two reasons.

Firstly because I got the rejection within a month, I'm pretty sure my last one took between 12 and 18 months to come back, so Tharg's new policy of submission windows looks like a great idea (and hopefully means less work for all those put upon droids wading through the slush pile)

And secondly, well because I came up with another idea I actually think works much better just after I'd posted my submission and hopefully I can get that one in before the subs window closes again. Never give up, never surrender! 

[Richmond Clements]

That's exactly the right attitude!
It's not a rejection, it's another chance to submit.

[The Legendary Shark]

That's exactly the right attitude!
It's not a rejection, it's another chance to submit.

^ This ^

Keep at it and think about honing your skills in the small press.

[CrazyFoxMachine]

Thirded!

Chin up, keep rolling on The small press have got your back

[W. R. Logan]

Or try submitting somewhere else.
As Alan Grant once said (paraphrasing slightly) if you're a writer you write for anyone, if you submit just to 2000AD you're a very keen fan.

[Hawkmumbler]

Keep on trucking, Starkers!

[scottinnitus]

Like others said - small press.

I've never submitted to 2000ad, but I've only had 1 rejection from small press. Everything else is getting out there slowly.

Keep writing!

[Starkers]

That's exactly the right attitude!
It's not a rejection, it's another chance to submit.

^ This ^

Keep at it and think about honing your skills in the small press.

I do wonder how many good writers just give up because they can't handle rejections, and how many mediocre ones have basically eventually made it through sheer dogged persistence! 

I noticed the other week that the novel which won the Man Booker prize had been rejected 75 times or something daft like that!

I definitely need to look into the small press.

[IndigoPrime]

Rowling was rejected numerous times. That alone should be enough for people to persevere.

[Starkers]

^ Stephen King as well.

I recall an interview with James Herbert many years ago. After a publisher snapped up The Rats they asked what else he had and were surprised he didn't have a drawer full of rejected manuscripts!