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One Site Rejected My Article Another Published It and Readers Love It

Posted on October 17th, 2009 in Writing by martie
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I recently had an article rejected that I had worked hard on and was quite proud of writing. So, I did the only thing I could think of to do.

 

When you submit an article to publishing site and it is rejected your first thought is that your article is no good. You then decide to either throw it out or try and rework it to make it publishable. While reworking an article may be exactly what you need to do in order to make your article publishable it is not always the case as I recently discovered.

 

I had written an article for another site and submitted it for publication. I had spent some long hours researching this article and a couple of days writing it. I was actually very proud of this particular article and therefore was quite surprised to have it rejected.

 

However, I felt the publisher knew best so I pulled up a copy of the article and printed it off to see where I could rework it and what needed to be changed. After reading the article over twice, I found that I did not want to change any of it. It was in fact, written exactly how I wanted to write it.

 

I was not sure what to do next. I could have let the article sit in my file for awhile and then taken it out later and tried to rework it but in this case, I knew I could not bring myself to make any significant changes in what I wrote. I also knew, that the particular story I told in this article was one I wanted read.

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So I did the only thing I could think of to do and that was to submit it to a different website. I was not really surprised when the second website published the article as I knew it was well written. What did surprise me is that in a couple of short days this article has not only become quite popular but has impressed other writers as well.

This article is now being Stumbled and Dug by others (not myself) and one gentleman has told me that he plans to include the link to this story in his monthly newsletter to all his family and friends.

I am telling you this, not to brag about this particular stories success but to make a very important point.

 

While publishers may have the last say in whether our work gets published or not, there are times when writers should not simply take no for an answer. If you know inside you that a particular piece of work is good then don’t let one or even a dozen rejections stop you. Keep looking, and you just may find a site or a publisher who sees the same thing  in your article that you see and will willingly give that article the green light.

Being a successful writer does not mean never getting a work rejected, it means being able to both accept rejection when it is due and knowing when not to accept rejection at all.

 

 

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