Issue 1 Vol. 1
    Editor's Corner

   Attention future writers! Are you trying your hardest for the editor of some newspaper to listen to you but keep on getting the door slammed in your face? Do people tell you that you will never make it as a writer? Do you doubt your ability to write? Guess what?! There is hope! If you are determined to work hard and use this big monster called "rejection" as a stepping stone, you can do anything!

   Did you know that (according to Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul) Jack London received 600 rejection slips before he sold first story. Now he is famous for his White Fang, Call of the Wild and many other books and short stories.

   The famous Chicken Soup for the Soul book series was turned down by over one hundred publishers before Health Communications Inc., published it. Over 50 million copies of their books have been sold in thirty-one languages!

   Pearl Buck's The Good Earth was rejected fourteen times and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize, according to Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Bud Gardner.

   Leon Uris failed high school English three times. Leon went on to write Exodus which turned out to be a best seller!

   The point I am trying to make here is that every writer will face some obstacles of some sort, some minor and major.  It are those writers who use these obstacles as stepping stones. Remember, if you are just beginning to get into the writing career, you are not going to be famous over night. It takes time, years even.  The trick is never to give up, look back or let anyone tell you that you are not good enough to be a writer. And always practice. That means write, write, and write some more. Check out the Quotes page for quotes on this!