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Excerpt from My Book "A Friendly Guide to Writers and Ghostwriters"

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When Stephen King was starting out, he stuck his rejection letters on a nail on the wall. Who knew he would become Stephen King? “By the time I was fourteen,” he said, “the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.”

 If you want to get published some day, take a lesson from Mr. King. Expect rejection. Use the letters to wallpaper your bathroom and remind you that you're actively moving toward your goal. At least you’re getting your work out there.

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