Coming back after rejection

Before - and alongside - success comes rejection. So, how do you keep going when it's knocked you to one side?

I’m not sure what’s worse, in response to a pitch: an outright no. A maybe that leaves you hanging. Or being ignored, which leaves a little flicker of hope glowing inside even though really, you know it’s a lazy no.

When I was starting out as an author, pitching to agents and editors, I kept a folder in my emails called ‘rejections’. Here, I planned to s…