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If an editor rejects your manuscript, do not despair. Get used to it. When I first started writing, I could have wall-papered a whole wall with rejection slips. Don’t take it personally, toughen up and keep going.
A story might be rejected for many more reasons other than your writing, but many people feel it is only their writing that is at fault.
Even if you have written an enquiry email first, and the editor has shown interest, he or she can change his or her mind. When you are an unknown writer, it is difficult to get a contract to write a story from an idea you have offered. The best you can hope for is a reply that says the idea is a good one and the story could be accepted on merit.
Some reasons for rejection of an idea or story are: the magazine may have covered the subject already or are about to; it may have too much material on hand; the subject of the material may not be right for the magazine’s readers; your photographs may not be good enough or may not support the story; the magazine might only use established writers.
Most editors get hundreds of ideas or unsolicited manuscripts sent to them each month.
Unfortunately editors are too busy to tell you why they’ve rejected a story. It is also not their job to do so.
Please write to the forum and tell others of your experiences.
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