I have been very lucky in my experience with fanfic zine editors: espresso_addict was so professional about producing her zine ttba that it meant I had to raise my game to be professional (eventually, I hope!) in return. Which was a good training ground. And the collaborative process with Isabeau has been very important too, I think, in that I always used to be very protective of my ideas and my writing, and writing collaboratively has made me more open about it.

However, one of the truest things said in that post, I think, is:

"What these guys have failed to understand about rejection is that it isn’t personal. If you’re a writer, you’re more or less constitutionally incapable of understanding that last sentence"