Time is always ripe to procrastinate

Afraid of being rejected, let’s use this!

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Right, you discover you are a writer and you procrastinate. You know you need it as functional as completing your personal uploading creativity app.

It is a kind of quirk defying you as a writer.

Right you accepted procrastination as a due to pay on the altar of your mission.

But what if you are procrastinating because you are afraid of being rejected?

Better said. As a freelance writer you struggle to know what your niche is. You diverge from what you love to write about because you have your bills to pay, then you come back to write about what really makes you feel better, about what really makes readers better. All right, you get the point on this sliding balance.

And soon another monster comes out: the so called pitching-at-editor-monster.

You read a plenty on that. You have to be persistent. You have to send at least one pitch letter per day and so on. And what are you doing? Procrastinating, because you are afraid your spike won’t be as resistant as Stephen King’s one. It cannot bear the weight of your massive rejection letters

Here you are a list of advice to bear this burden and go to action:

1. At the beginning, it is natural to consider a rejection as an act against you. we are human, after all. Don’t push back this feeling.
2. Role playing part one: close your eyes. imagine your favourite magazine. what article do you want to read about on it today? this could be a good idea to start.
3. Role playing part two: imagine yourself to be the editor of your favourite magazine: imagine to be Anna Wintour in charge of an editorial meeting. What will strike your attention the most?
4. Use a wabi sabi approach in looking at your rejection, meaning you are considering your process as a writer: to learn to walk you have to fall down…after a rejection, you will be able to raise up.
5. Never forget you are writing because you are enjoying what you are doing.
6. Considering rejection as your training to be more flexible and creative.
7. Don't push so hard on yourself. Try to listen to you, deeply.
8. Use a Louise Hay approach: meaning think about you, about your fear to be rejected, about your willingness to be featured on that magazine. Squeeze all of this into a sentence. Before falling asleep, repeat it for 28 minutes for 3 months...and you see...as you can heal yourself reaching what you need.
9. Don’t make comparisons.