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Writers turn their ultimate foe into a friend
Every writer who desires success must first learn to live through failure; indeed, to master one’s response to failure is to master a critical portion of the writing life. Sure, failure, rejection, and heartbreak are ubiquitous, but writers acquire a special intimacy with the no, the dashed hope, the offhand dismissal, the turn-down, the back-of-the-hand.
Now writers can see some of their own punch back. Writers are composing the rejections, and the catharsis is palpable. No Zen-like equanimity here: pinpoint snark and raw anger carry the day. You can see the results at The Rejection Generator Project.
Original Prototype of the RGP. Click for larger version.
Inspired by psychological research showing that after people experience pain they are less afraid of it in the future, The Rejection Generator exposes writers to the most painful rejection possible in order to take the sting out of future disappointment. It has already helped tens of thousands of writers.
Seven writers have written rejections that can make you wail, laugh, retch, or all three and more, sometimes simultaneously. They are:
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Mark Wisnewski (bio)
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Jennifer Villamere (bio)
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Robyn Parnell (bio)
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James Mitchell (bio)
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Douglas W. Milliken (bio)
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Salma Saeedi (bio)
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Rowena Wiseman (bio)
Stoneslide Media, the creator of The Rejection Generator and publisher of Stoneslide Books and The Stoneslide Corrective online magazine, is marking the one-year anniversary of the project’s unveiling. The magnanimity and deep humanity of the idea caught the eye of places like The New Yorker, The Independent of London, The Paris Review, and many, many other publications and blogs. View a sample.
“This is really what we dreamed of when we launched The Generator,” said Sylvester Stonesman, an executive at Stoneslide Media. “We just wanted to help writers. They’re so inquisitive, nervous, and weak, like teensy, tiny kittens. And now they can use The Generator to claw back. ‘Claw,’ get it? But we won’t let them go outside, or else they might hang around our neighbor’s bird feeder and decimate the local warbler population. And, yes, I promise we’ll make sure they get fixed. If you see what I mean. But my point is, this is a great day.”
