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4 Key Lessons From a Rejected Author

7 min readAug 6, 2020

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What made you click on the title? Having trouble getting your articles accepted by publication?

I can relate. It took me time to accept that my shit stinks too.

What if you were looking at this “M” for “Medium” in a completely wrong way?

Here I will share how I look at Medium and its associates and what are the 4 key lessons that I learned after getting rejected by various publications.

Let’s dive in.

Medium as a person:

Let’s face it — Medium is not a person who likes to bitch around! Medium only promotes information not mere opinions (we have comment section for that). The best part, it’s you who will decide how to convey that information.

Medium loves to test your resilience, it might be that you are here just for fun. So forget that you can lure Medium for a One Night thing! It will test your perseverance to its core. What should you do then? — fall in love with Medium.

Here is an article by “The Atlantic” — but you can read that later. First, let’s introduce you to someone.

Time to meet associates:

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Saurabh Bajaj
Saurabh Bajaj

Written by Saurabh Bajaj

A Multi Disciplinary (MD) Enthusiast. A slow learner. A Rational Optimist.