(Sorry, Game of Thrones is on my mind. I miss it so.) Rejections suck. Let's just get that out of the way first, because there's no other way of putting it and no amount of sugar-coating that will ease the pain of those little white envelopes (or, in this day and age, little formatted emails). I have no idea how many mugs of hot chocolate I've bawled into over the years while I accumulated stacks and stacks of those things. Nothing new here—we all know this. We lament it constantly! However, a while ago, I attended a writer's conference where another author shared the fact that she had never gotten rejected in the traditional publishing process. She wished she had. Why? Well, her answer made me think about rejection from a completely different angle: