Twitter users encourage each other to #ShareYourRejections

Chances are if you’ve logged onto Twitter in the last day, you’ve seen that the topic #ShareYourRejections has been trending.

I’ve been rejected from Breadloaf so many times I’ve lost count. It’s all good. Maybe facing rejection would be a little easier to take if we talked about it more. #ShareYourRejections

— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) August 15, 2018

Users flooded the site with tales of rejections in their careers, and some circumstances which ultimately led to massive success.

Here’s what people have gone through in their careers

Check out some of the top responses:

A guy I went on a few dates with stopped seeing me so he could focus on his “career”. Five years later he was auditioning for one of my films #ShareYourRejections https://t.co/4Zn89ZYCOl

— Sade Sellers (@IAMSadeSellers) August 16, 2018

Every agent I queried rejected my debut.
All 111 of them.
It was AIR AWAKENS.
Book 5 of the series got me on the USA Today Bestsellers List.

I'm ready to continue to be rejected. It's the industry.
But it also means I'm still working and moving forward.#ShareYourRejection

— Elise Kova (@EliseKova) August 16, 2018

I was rejected from the Warner Brothers TV writers’ workshop three years in a row. The next year, I got staffed on Orange is the New Black. #ShareYourRejections

— Lauren Morelli (@lomorelli) August 15, 2018

A literary agent turned me down because “memoirs just don’t sell.” A few years later, I sold my memoir to Simon & Schuster for six figures. #ShareYourRejection

— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) August 15, 2018

Years ago, I had 4 rounds of interviews for an entry role at an agency before they told me I wasn’t what they were looking for.

A month ago their President asked if I’d be interested in discussing their Digital VP role.

I told him I started my own agency. #ShareYourRejections

— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) August 16, 2018

My PhD advisor told me I couldn’t graduate because English wasn’t my first language— he recommended ESL classes. Now I have a PhD, work in oncology, publish regularly, edit a literary travel journal, & am writing a narrative nonfiction book on outlier women #ShareYourRejection

— Madhushree Ghosh (@WriteMadhushree) August 16, 2018

I was turned down by an MFA program by email along with 400 other applicants – cc'd. Not bcc'd. #ShareYourRejection

— Carolyn Kellogg (@paperhaus) August 15, 2018

Every cool position I've had (@TheDailyShow, The Colbert Report, @Upworthy) has rejected me at least one time before they hired me! #ShareYourRejections https://t.co/7xgqDbCKbQ

— amanda pell (@missamandapell) August 15, 2018

When I moved to the city in 2012 I applied for a writing job at an online magazine and was rejected and now they write articles about me. #shareyourrejections

— Akilah Hughes (@AkilahObviously) August 16, 2018

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— G.S. (Gabrielle) Prendergast (@GabrielleSaraP) August 15, 2018

Sent a résumé to @NYMag. Got a form letter from the mg. ed. that said “we have no job available for you, now or in the future.” Couple of years later (under a different m.e.), I got hired. It was 1993. I’m still there. #ShareYourRejection

— Christopher Bonanos (@heybonanos) August 16, 2018

My 1st novel was rejected by at least 25 agents and countless publishers. At one point got picked up by an agent who then signed me only to change his mind and drop me a week later. That book ended up a Thriller Award finalist and won some other awards. #ShareYourRejection

— J.J. Hensley (@JJHensleyauthor) August 16, 2018

On every level actors get rejected for a living. And sometimes we get lucky. #ShareYourRejection

— Bryan Greenberg (@bryangreenberg) August 16, 2018

I was told I wasn't experienced enough to read the slush pile of a literary magazine, but could help out with "office work." Five years later, the editor who said this to me asked me for an endorsement for her book. #ShareYourRejections

— Laila Lalami (@LailaLalami) August 16, 2018

I’m enjoying reading the #ShareYourRejections responses. It’s a great reminder that we’re all just going whichever way we’re going, at our own speed, and in our own time. No judgement required.

— Ashley C. Ford (@iSmashFizzle) August 16, 2018