Monday, September 26, 2016

Acceptance

You will find that instances may occur during your professional career when you too must accept some difficult news. A common one for authors are that a reviewer wants more revisions. Fighting such things, kicking and screaming, simply does not change the inevitable. You must accept there are times when you must put up with delays.

The feeling of a lack of control can be frustrating, painful, and make you angry or depressed. It can stop you in your tracks and make you throw things at the computer. It doesn’t help. The sooner you can accept that this too is a part of life and the process of getting published, the sooner you can move forward. Take it one step at a time and claim what control that you can. What step can you do today? Even if it is nothing more than making a list, take the next baby step toward acceptance.

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