2025 Rejections Goal
OK, I'm back for another round of trying to hit 100 rejections in a year. Can she do it, folks? In 2023 I hit 91, and in 2024 I hit 65, but I believe in myself! I can send enough things out to accumulate 100 rejections. THIS YEAR WILL BE MY YEAR! Current Total: 110/100
I hit my total, and I also sold 5 things this year, which is good. Great! And I very much would not have submitted to some of the markets if I weren't chasing this goal, but I think this might be too much of a downer of a goal to continue. There's good reasons in publishing to set the goal as a thing you can control. "Get an agent," "sell a book," "hit list" are all goals that are way too dependent on the whims of the market. But also, measuring the many ways I have failed to succeed is maybe not so great for my mental health. Next year, maybe I'll aim for hitting a certain fic word count every month and go back to writing things and having people tell me they like them instead of having people tell me they don't.
