(This is Shiloh. SHE says no by escaping her backyard at every opportunity…)

The Mystery of Fearing the NO

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/26/rejection-authors-writers-creative-process

I used to joke about my ability to wallpaper my bathroom with rejection letters. Now it’s my entire HOUSE. But that’s ugly wallpaper, so I won’t go that far, of course.

This article is about why people — in this case, writers — will torture themselves with rejection letters, or worse — not write at all for fear of receiving more. Or receiving just one, if fear of the ‘no’ keeps people from trying writing in the first place. Or of trying anything. Today’s Konundrum is, then the question of why. in writing or ANY task a person undertakes which is important to them, sometimes people are stopped cold by the NO fear, or pushed forward further by it?

Ooh, that’s a ridiculous run-on sentence for this former English teacher. Here’s the Konundrum: What’s The Mystery of the Power of the NO?

I am a retired teacher, and my main job — the one I held for sixteen of the twenty years I spent in the field — had a very interesting beginning. Because of a single acting class I took in college, and then a beginning acting overflow class I taught at my first job, the principal at my second job decided it was a good idea to put me in charge of the entire drama…