JOE HILL (Stephen King’s Son) Gets Sucker Punched!

[Source: Writer’s Digest]

[Joe Hill] had been sending his short stories to The Atlantic for a while now, and thought he was getting close to breaking in. The rejection letters usually came in big envelopes containing his manuscript, but this one was different. It was small. Like, say, something you’d mail a check in.

Hill was married at the time and he ducked into a pay phone to call his wife.

“I said, ‘I’m so excited, I’m so excited…I’m going to rip the letter open and I’m going to read it to you right now–‘ . . . .

‘And I ripped the letter open, and it was a form rejection,’ he says. ‘And scribbled at the bottom was, ‘Sorry, we lost your manuscript.’

Pow! Kapow! Clunk! Out on the canvas! But it didn’t stop Joe Hill, and it shouldn’t stop you or me either. Sometimes you have to FIGHT TO WRITE!

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