Your Rejected Writing Deserves a Second Chance

Overcoming publication rejection with the R.E.S.T. method

Christina M. Ward
6 min readApr 24, 2024

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Some things deserve a second chance. Perhaps not your ex. Perhaps not that crummy diet that made you lose your mind there for a minute.

But yes, that writing piece that took weeks to research and write — that does deserve a second chance at publishing. Today, I’ll show you a second chance piece that earned good money and how I did it.

Writing for Publishing Often Involves Rejection

You put yourself out there, wrote with bravery, and perfected your work with heavy-handed editing. You thought you’d send it over and get it published right away.

Easy peasy, right?

Rejection as a catalyst

Then, the rejection notice comes.

Now what? Toss out all that hard work? Absolutely not. This happened to me recently with a website called Listverse.

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Christina M. Ward

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