The Art of Rejection

Rejection is a sign that you’re pushing boundaries, opening doors.

Grant Faulkner
The Startup
Published in
5 min readMay 22, 2019

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To be an author is to be rejected. Sometimes a publisher rejects your work. Sometimes a friend or family member responds unfavorably. Sometimes you reject yourself. Rejection for a writer is akin to water for a fish, except rejection doesn’t include the life-giving nutrients and oxygen that water provides for a fish.

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Grant Faulkner
The Startup

Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month, co-founder of 100 Word Story, writer, tap dancer, alchemist, contortionist, numbskull, preacher.