The Stories Writers Tell Themselves
Aug 13, 2026 · 4 min · 5 segments
**Episode 3 - Rejection means I'm not good enough** Writers spend a lot of time making up stories and not all of them end up in our books. *The Stories Writers Tell Themselves* is a free limited…
Katherine ColletteHostThe rejection means I'm not good enough story usually runs on a few familiar thinking patterns.
It is scrambling to protect you from shame by convincing you to give up, which is ironic because giving up is the only way to guarantee you will never get what you want.
Something useful to remember is that just because a thought or a feeling is loud or strong or persistent doesn't mean it's true.
Your brain is saying, "This rejection proves you're not good enough," but another way of looking at it is rejection is part of the process.
If we come back to this idea of all or nothing thinking, it's easy to think no one will wanna publish this book, when in fact you just need one person to wanna publish it, one agent, one publisher, one editor.
The rejection means I'm not good enough story usually runs on a few familiar thinking patterns.
It is scrambling to protect you from shame by convincing you to give up, which is ironic because giving up is the only way to guarantee you will never get what you want.
Something useful to remember is that just because a thought or a feeling is loud or strong or persistent doesn't mean it's true.
Your brain is saying, "This rejection proves you're not good enough," but another way of looking at it is rejection is part of the process.
If we come back to this idea of all or nothing thinking, it's easy to think no one will wanna publish this book, when in fact you just need one person to wanna publish it, one agent, one publisher, one editor.
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