If you have ever submitted a manuscript and have been rejected, you know how tough the publishing business can be. Writing is a creative process that requires sweat, blood and heart. In order to be a successful writer, the work requires a soul and not just something that had to be done. When someone reads a piece of work with no heart in it, they soon lose interest and move on. If that happens to be the case, the quality of the content really doesn't matter.

This is why it is so difficult for authors to accept rejections from publishing companies.Who wants to have their own soul rejected? It takes a lot of courage to send out such important work, only to have complete strangers judge and possibly reject it. Writers are sensitive souls, which is why they write so well. Flat out rejection from a publisher can feel quite painful. It is not unknown for some writers to kill themselves after many fruitless rejections.

For many, their is no point to write if no one will ever be able to read it. What use is it to write if your words remain on a shelf never even considered by a publisher? While there will always be a fear of rejection when sending in a manuscript to a publisher, it should never stop you from trying. Even some of the most famous authors were rejected by dozens of publishers until they they found one who believed in their work.

Sometimes, the quality of your writing does not factor into a publisher’s decision to publish or not. Publishers pick finished work which they think is marketable to rake in as much profit for them. They will usually choose the same conservative choices to maximize profit and unfortunately minimize selection. But if all publishers were so restricted, some of the world’s best literary treasures would never see the light of day.

If you have ever read "The Diary of Anne Frank" and felt the honesty and innocence of its young author, you never would have guessed that the diary was rejected by publishers. One of the publishers who rejected the work, went so far to say that the author of "The Diary of Anne Frank" did not have depth of feeling and only made superficial observations throughout the story.

Writing is indeed an art. Add every bit of yourself into the work to create masterpieces that publishers would die for. But keep in mind that those in the publishing industry do not always know what they are talking about, obviously.