My First Rejection Letter

Anyone who’s seriously considered writing, has probably heard about how Stephen King used to fill a nail in his wall with rejection letters.  In his book On Writing he writes, “By the time I was fourteen…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 kept on writing.”  As an aspiring writer and fan of Stephen King, this story has been a major inspiration to me.  So much in fact that I am not even discouraged by my first rejection letter that arrived in the mail today.  If fourteen-year old Stephen King could take a nail full of rejection slips, surely I can handle this one.  Bring on the rejection letters!  Do your worst!  I will nail each and every one of those heartless sheets of paper to my wall until I receive an acceptance letter!