How I deal with comparison bugs š
What to do when other peoples self-promotion is triggering you
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Emma Gannon put a call out for articles on her substack this week. I weirdly assumed I wouldnāt get it, but I thought, yunno, you have got to be in it to win it.
I shared that I would pitch, so it only seemed fair when I received the rejection email the next day to share that.
We rarely see people hyping about rejections, so the constant highlights noise can make us feel crap.
No pitch is ever wasted in my book. I decided to recycle the ideas I wrote in the London Writers Salon on Monday and use those articles for you, my lovely paid subscribers, instead.
This Sunday, Iām sharing the one that, as a headline, proved most popular with my Instagram audience. Enjoy x
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