“Any rejections to celebrate, this month?”

I was at my first ever in-real-life writers’ group, and the organizer started the meeting by handing a microphone around the room, and asking people to celebrate what they’d achieved in their writing life, since they last met.

Celebrate rejections? What kind of group is this?!, I thought, sure I was in the wrong place.

It was the one of many ways I’ve had my expectations upended, on this writing journey.

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