It’s a two character world famous word that we all don’t want to hear, especially when it comes to guest blogging.
The word is “No.”
Everyone likes to here a big “Yes”. But what happen when it gets turned into “No”.
Few years ago, when I was new at writing, I don’t know the exact posture of holding pencil to write, but somehow I manage to write a post and decided to submit it on other blog as guest post.
While I waited to hear back from blog admin, I kept writing.
Then suddenly I got a mail regarding to make some tweaks in my guest post. So I made my tweaks.
And then waited again- to hear back from admin. While I waited, I kept writing.
Of course, I have passion for writing, and I want to take my writing to next level. So I kept writing all those moment until I got the mail of admin with some awful words that we don’t want to hear….
“You post quality is not as good as to make it on our blog.”
At that time I got a complete silence. Shed few tears. Processed my emotions. Then, I moved on.
What else I can do at that moment? Only 2 things:
1- Be Discouraged
2- Move On
I chose to “Move on.”. In fact I’m still choosing it. Since I started to do many guest posts, I told myself that whatever reply I will get, I would be ok with it. I would keep writing.
I hoped for best, but prepared for worst. And here’s what I learned from getting rejected by a blogger.
Always Have Backup Plan
“A backup plan is much better than a good plan tomorrow.”
After 8 months of writing, I learned a lesson that sticking with only one guest blog is not smartest thing to do. So I started to send my proposals to lots of other blogs also.
Because I know one secret that very few people knows “One shot is not enough to hit the target.” So be ready to try second one.
Learn From Rejections
In world everything happens for a reason. Right!
So your guest post also got rejected because of some reasons, because you made some mistakes in your post and lots of other reasons.
You can’t take back your mistakes, but you can learn from them.
So learn from each rejection, what are the mistakes that causes your rejection, and then try to avoid them. Because our own mistakes makes us perfect and wealthy writer.
Keep Going On
If you get turned down by getting few rejections then you are a bad writer. If you are thinking that way, then you might end up on quitting writing.
A simple rejection has the power to end your writing career, if you want.
The face is we as a writer going to hear the word “No” lot more time in our whole writing career. So get used to it, make yourself familiar to it, consider it as nothing new for you.
Rejection is very important part of every good writer’s life. Any writer who wants’ to become a successful writer will going to face lots of rejection in his whole writing career. And rejection is what pushed us forward to do something new; think out of the box, but if we let it.
Rejection can make you discouraged or it can make you determined to succeed. The choice is yours.
My final words
Few rejections can’t stop me.
From each rejection I learned something that decreases my chance of getting more rejection and increase my chance to get success. Now I got addicted to rejection, because rejections are my lessons, and I learned a lots of things from my rejections.
So Whats your lessons that you learned from Word “NO?” share it in below comment section…
Regards
Gaurav Heera
