I am back dear readers and ready to have another go at gathering up forsaken stories.

Admittedly, I found myself getting a bit discouraged by other people’s “discouragedness.” Rejection royally blows, I think we can all agree on that point. The wall I kept hitting over and over was a reluctance by people to share their stories and rejection letters. Are we embarrassed? Ashamed? Some kind of toxic combination of both? I understand.

But people, it takes a lot of time and effort to put together a submission for TAL and I believe even the rejected ones deserve to be read! The producers say it themselves in EVERY REJECTION LETTER: “Please know that we reject a lot of material that’s perfectly good work but that simple doesn’t fit the unique constraints of a radio show or the idiosyncratic needs of TAL.”

So, rejection does not = bad.

Send me your stories, send me your friends’ stories, send me your friends friends’ stories…

For it is time to share.

Cheers.

rejectedbytal@gmail.com