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\"Sadly<\/a>
Sadly I didn’t save my job search map with its pins marking my many rejections. This one is used under a Creative Commons license, by Marc Levin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nWhen I was graduating from college, looking for my first newspaper reporting job, I taped a map of the country to the wall in my mom’s basement and pushed a pin into every city where I’d sent my resume.
\nAs the form rejection letters came back, I taped them to the map, figuring it was something of a numbers game, that more rejections got me a little bit closer to the elusive yes out there.
\nSo I love Lauren McCabe’s\u00a0blog post about a woman who sewed\u00a0her rejection letters into a dress for her Mardi Gras costume<\/a>. I love the idea of celebrating putting yourself out there doing what you love, even if it means hearing no more often than getting a yes.<\/p>\n
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I imagined her before she was the woman in an extraordinary dress, what she must have done as the days and months and years of rejection surmounted: collected each slip in a dresser drawer, the one just below her socks, just in case she needed to recall who had denied her.<\/p>\n

One day, opening the drawer to a sea of vibrant paper, she imagined that the rejection letters were no longer rejection letters but folds of a strange and beautiful silk, variegated in hue and texture and luster.<\/p>\n

She gathered the material in her arms, released it onto the floor and began sewing steadily, patiently, until each and every single inch of rejection was accounted for in a dress as large and full as a fairytale.<\/p>\n

\n<\/blockquote>\n

On the theme of “try, try again,” here’s a collection of famous authors who were originally rejected<\/a>\u00a0and Mental Floss has actual rejection letters sent to U2, Andy Warhol, Tim Burton and Jim Lee<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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