{"id":1341,"date":"2019-10-22T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2019-10-22T10:07:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:07:52","slug":"150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/150\/","title":{"rendered":"150"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I GOT MY 150TH REJECTION!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s only <em>October<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Took me to <em>December 30th of last year<\/em> to rack up that many rejections, so hurrah for crushing it this year. Still need to hit 200 subs if I want to cross the big goal out&#8211;currently at 157&#8211;but I&#8217;m on track to start querying Space Crazies this December. I plan to assemble potential agent emails while I am making up my query package in November, and then post-#PitMad start emailing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know it seems weird to celebrate rejections to most people but that number represents a hell of a lot of work, work that most people&#8211;especially those unfamiliar with publishing&#8211;don&#8217;t see. It&#8217;s the bottom 7\/10ths of the publishing iceberg. It represents 157 times I have emailed a person this year with my work, asking them what they think. So yeah, I feel it&#8217;s worth shouting about, even if it doesn&#8217;t match anyone else&#8217;s measure of success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I need to go send email #158.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONE HUNDRED FIFTY REJECTIONS IN TEN MONTHS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,179,111,9],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-submissions-rejections","category-writing","tag-rejectionchallenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}