your experience of the rejection is personal. In fact, it can’t be anything else.

So let yourself be angry, frustrated, even grief-stricken—after all, as a somewhat kinder friend of mine once remarked, when a painful thing happens, a period of mourning is appropriate.

But now the good news: Since you can’t know (or control) the outcome of any story pitch, audition or spec script, you’re free to just do your work. Rather than shaping your creative endeavors to please others, or in some effort to latch on to or anticipate the next trend, your best bet is to do what excites and moves you, to make your creative growth the ultimate goal.

In other words, as I wrote in a previous column, “Keep giving them you, until you is what they want.”

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hollywood-the-couch/201201/rejection

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