Microsoft and Yahoo both employ intelligent, well-educated men and women. Carl Icahn’s pretty sharp, too. Recent acquisition dealings seem to have turned a great many people into finger-pointing fifth graders, though, and there’s been another salvo of letters and statements to support this argument.
Movie Gallery Responds to Hollywood’s Blockbuster Rejection
After Hollywood Entertainment rejected Blockbuster’s offer, Movie Gallery issued a statement in response.
Five Ways Professional Writers Eliminate Rejection
If you’re writing for publication, you’re offering something for sale. Not everyone will want to buy it. This is only common sense. There’s no such thing as rejection, there’s only writing which has yet to find a home. If you submit a piece of writing enough times, it will sell. Professional writers understand this.
Some Tips on How to Deal With Rejection
Rejections hurt–and every editor knows this. They all try to be tactful, but with their workloads increasing every year they no longer have time to help a writer whose manuscript would take up months of their time to get right. So these days the chances are that, instead of a personal letter, you’ll receive a photocopied rejection that isn’t dated and doesn’t address you by name or mention the title of the rejected manuscript, let alone have a proper signature at the end of it. I’m not sure whether this will increase your hurt or lessen it. I had been receiving rejections for years before I started receiving this type of thing.