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[elingregory]

I just submitted a story for consideration for publication.

Now I feel sick.

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[wulfila.livejournal.com]

Good luck! I shall keep my fingers crossed! :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'm so proud of you. Remember all the firsts. They are special.

Now, forget about it and get on with something else!

[yakalskovich]

**hugs you lots**

[beckyblack]

Well done, you! It's scary, I know. It took me a long time to click "send" that first time. Distract yourself by working on something else now.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

*passes elin_gregory bucket*

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

:) thanks mate

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

LOL! Yes'm! I have pirates on their way to the type of climax where they keep their clothes on.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

*hugs back*

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

We're brave!

Going to write pirate nonsene now. :D

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

*grabs bucket with gratitude*

Thanks. Now I can concentrate on my pirates again.

[britalone.livejournal.com]

Exciting and scary I bet!!! Fingers crossed for a positive result.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Go you! Good luck!

[melanietushmore.livejournal.com]

awww! dont feel sick! *fingers crossed*

im in the same boat but i just feel a tad impatient :o/

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Yay! You haven't left the pirates in the bath all this time have you?! They'll be all wrinkly by now!

[gaycrow.livejournal.com]

Best of luck. I hope the tummy butterflies have settled by now.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Nope but they are well on their way to the kind of climax that involves being fully dressed and gunfire :D I feel much more capable to provide one of those than the other sort.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

:) it'll be ages til I hear anything so now is the time to write lots, before I get despondent at a rejection letter.

So many stories!!

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Fingers crossed for you, I hope you hear soon.

For myself, the way I look at it is that I have 3 to 4 months where I can preen myself on my bravery and write as much as possible before I have to deal with the result.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Thanks, love.

I had ice cream and read a PI novel :D that settled me down nicely.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

:D *hugs* thanks babes

[melanietushmore.livejournal.com]

XD lol!
what will be will be :)
do some good deeds quickly so karma is happy with you? ;p

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

I imagine you will sail through, but the best advice I can offer is to now try and forget that you sent it off at all - worrying isn't going to help :)

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

By tomorrow I will have 55 pages of novella to beta with a short turnaround - my way since 2001 of storing up brownie points in writerly heaven :)

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the advice. I'm taking it to heart. I've got pirates to finish, poor boys, who have been remarkably patient for such free spirits and also have been given a nice reading list by a friendly romano-celt expert in preparation for Nanowrimo. I have MASSES to do. :D

[melanietushmore.livejournal.com]

lol brownie points! XD
i love beta-ing! its so nice to do it when you like the author as well, feel like you've helped :D im sure they'll love it :)

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

kind of climax that involves being fully dressed and gunfire
Is that how pirates get their kicks?! ;P

[bg-thomas.livejournal.com]

Worry does help! Trust! It is okay! Know that just what is supposed to happen will happen.

Know that the greatest and most famous authors in the world and throughout time have recieved rejection letters. Who hasn't been rejected? But we have ALL also been embraced.

I will never forget that sale! I was so happy and so stunned.

There have been rejections since then, and there have been editors that held positions open for me in an anthology.

A man who changed my life once told me to search for THE thing that made my heart sing. That when I had completed it, I was stunned that I have even done it. That when I was doing that, I was "channeling" what I was "supposed" to do.

I knew what that was. It was writing. So I wrote!

Is that how writing makes you feel? If so, then write write write write! LOVE writing, even the parts that aren't fun, like the re-writes and the re-r-ewrites and the editing and the re-editing. It is all a part of it. LOVE IT!

Have faith in yourself. Universal Energy flows where attention goes. You believe you will sell stories and you will.

Leap, baby! The net will appear!

(((HUGS))) and good luck!
BG

[kayberrisford.livejournal.com]

*hugs* - best of luck. I know that scary feeling, but you deserve the very best results, and I'm sure success for your story will come soon :)

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Such good advice, Ben, and as inspiring as always. thank you *hugs*

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

I had so much fun writing it that it has paid for itself already. But it would be nice if a few more people could read it other than my betas and a couple of friends.

*hugs* thanks for the best wishes. Now, what are you working on? I hope it's fun.

[kayberrisford.livejournal.com]

It would be very nice for all of us *keeps fingers crossed*

At the moment, I'm working on an Elizabethan set fantasy. It's going well, but quite slowly. Def. lots of fun, though :D