1. Open the taxi listings results with excitement
2. See the word the ‘return’ and read the critique
3. Decide that the screeners hate my music, it’s all terrible and I should give up.
4. Relay the above to my wife
5. My wife reads the critique
6. She points out that it’s not all bad and that there are some positive comments and recommendations
7. I reluctantly re-read the critique and grudgingly agree that she might possibly be right
8. Study the critique in more detail and think about how to improve the cue in light of this
9. Work on revised or new cue.
10. Submit to new listing
Following some trial and error, I’m managing to jump straight to step 8. Although there are still times when I’m at step 3.
Interestingly the more I do steps 8-10 the more forwards I seem to get
After exploring a variety of styles I have focused on a couple of areas where I have better feedback.
I’ve just had a couple of cues forwarded from my first dispatch listing “D190120SP -SOMBER SOLO PIANO INSTRUMENTALS are needed by a U.K.-based Music Library that's using TAXI as its primary resource for a large-scale catalog expansion.”
Now to turn those forwards into deals. I guess the only way to do that is keep writing more music and get better at it.
Very good points! What I find difficult is to go back to stuff that got rejected and refine it. I have this 'can't step into the same river twice' thing going and rather like to write something new instead... After having joined Taxi for the second time, I now write a lot more than I used to and I somehow found a way to get rid of that 'the next song must be THE song!' approach I used to have, which I find very healthy. 
