Rejections, Writing Vulnerability & Finding Community

✍️ Overcoming Rejection & Vulnerability as a Writer: Tips from Emma Elias ✍️

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In this episode of Writing Quest, author Emma Elias and I dive deep into one of the hardest parts of being a writer: handling rejection and the vulnerability that comes with sharing your work. Emma shares her personal experiences with rejection from literary magazines and explains how perseverance and community have helped her push through. We also discuss the emotional challenges of sharing your characters and stories, and why it can feel more intimate to let someone close to you read your work than a stranger.

What’s Inside:

💔 Handling Rejections: Emma opens up about the frequent rejections writers face and how she turns them into learning opportunities.

🤝 Building a Writing Community: Why connecting with other writers and submitting often helps you grow and improve.

😰 Vulnerability in Writing: We discuss why sharing your work, especially with people you know, can feel so personal and daunting.

🎯 Perseverance Pays Off: How Emma's journey through rejections ultimately led to success in literary magazines.

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