Curriculum
- 5 Sections
- 20 Lessons
- Lifetime
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- Module 1: The First 48 Hours (Triage, Not Strategy)Week one is triage. The first 48 hours after a major rejection have specific dangers — the spiral, the panicked overcorrection, the public-statement temptation, the burn-it-all-down impulse. We're not6
- 1.1Module 1: Overview20
- 1.2Mindset Maven Test: What’s YOUR Specific Post-Rejection Spiral Pattern?4 Questions
- 1.3Meditation: The First 24 Hours Audio (Designed for Right Now)15
- 1.4Writing Prompt: Module 130
- 1.5INSPIRATION: The Forty-Eight Hours After My Agent Told Me About the Big No15
- 1.6Companion Blog: The First 48 Hours After a Major Rejection: Triage, Not Strategy10
- Module 2: Naming the Grief (Because That's What This Is)Week two is naming. Major rejection is grief — for the imagined future, for the version of yourself who believed this was the one, for the years of work that hoped to land here. Most writers don't let6
- 2.1Module 2: Overview20
- 2.2Mindset Maven Test: What’s YOUR Specific Rejection Grief Pattern?3 Questions
- 2.3Meditation: The Grief Naming Audio (a Slow Twelve Minutes for the Real Thing)12
- 2.4Writing Prompt: Module 230
- 2.5INSPIRATION: The Eulogy I Wrote for the Book Deal That Didn’t Happen in 201915
- 2.6Companion Blog: Calling Major Rejection ‘Disappointment’ Is the Lie That Delays Recovery. It’s Grief.10
- Module 3: The Next-Send Worksheet (The Bridge Back to Practice)Week three is the bridge. By now the acute grief has settled into something workable, even if it's not gone. This week we draft the Next-Send Worksheet — the document that defines your next submission6
- 3.1Module 3: Overview20
- 3.2Mindset Maven Test: What’s the Right Next-Send for YOU This Time?3 Questions
- 3.3Meditation: The Drafting Audio (Use to Fill In the Next-Send Worksheet)14
- 3.4Writing Prompt: Module 330
- 3.5INSPIRATION: The Next-Send That Saved Me After the Big No15
- 3.6Companion Blog: The Next-Send Worksheet: How to Plan the Submission That Comes After a Rejection10
- Module 4: Re-Reading the Rejection (Carefully, On Purpose, Once)Week four is the careful re-read. By now you've recovered enough to look at the rejection itself with some distance. We're going to read it ONCE more — carefully, on purpose, with a structured protoco6
- 4.1Module 4: Overview20
- 4.2Mindset Maven Test: Is the Rejection Letter Worth Re-Reading? (Honest Assessment)3 Questions
- 4.3Meditation: The Re-Read Audio (Press Play Right Before You Open the Email)16
- 4.4Writing Prompt: Module 430
- 4.5INSPIRATION: The Rejection I Re-Read Forty Times (And the Two Sentences That Were Actually Useful)15
- 4.6Companion Blog: Re-Read That Rejection Letter Once, Carefully, on Purpose. Then Walk Away.10
- Module 5: The Recovery Document (Yours, for the Next Rejection)Final week. You'll compile your Personal Rejection Recovery Document — a one-page reference that holds YOUR grief pattern, YOUR 48-hour do-not-do list, YOUR Next-Send Worksheet template, YOUR re-read6
- 5.1Module 5: Overview20
- 5.2Mindset Maven Test: What Will the NEXT Major Rejection Look Like For YOU?4 Questions
- 5.3Meditation: Closing Audio: The Letter to Future You (Who Is About to Get the News)15
- 5.4Writing Prompt: Module 530
- 5.5INSPIRATION: Five Rejections, Five Recovery Documents, One Practice15
- 5.6Companion Blog: Write a Rejection Recovery Document Before You Need It (You Will Need It)10
INSPIRATION: Five Rejections, Five Recovery Documents, One Practice
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