Speaking of sparkly mailbox syndrome, did anyone else get a WotF heads-up email? I got one today. Yay! Normally I'd be all gee, up to ten weeks before final results, but today everything writerly seems to be happening very fast.
Dear Contestant,
Your story has arrived and been logged in the 1st quarter of the 2008 contest. We will have final results in 8 to 10 weeks. If you have any questions feel free to let me know. Otherwise, you can also check out the blog as I do post the winners there. (Content deleted by Kami to defy evil spam bots from assaulting the nice director.) Best, Joni Labaqui - Director
Your story has arrived and been logged in the 1st quarter of the 2008 contest. We will have final results in 8 to 10 weeks. If you have any questions feel free to let me know. Otherwise, you can also check out the blog as I do post the winners there. (Content deleted by Kami to defy evil spam bots from assaulting the nice director.) Best, Joni Labaqui - Director
Good luck to us all!
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Yeah, I received that email. When I saw something from WotF sitting in my inbox, my heart jumped. For half a second I was excited until I realized it was way too early to be hearing results. So naturally I thought it was an email to tell me that my story was *so bad* they had to refuse it entry.
Funny how my brain goes from excited to depressed in half a second.
So I was happy to find a note just letting me know they received my submission.
But in eight to ten weeks, I'm going to be a mess, I think, when I see another email from them.
Sigh.
Got the WotF email too. I too figured it was a rejection (even though I sent an extra stamped, addressed envelope so they can tell me that personally) but I didn't get depressed over the thought.
Funny how we each think differently.
In eight to ten weeks, I will probably have forgotten about the whole thing and if and when a rejection comes, I won't be thinking, "Crap!" I'll be looking for the next place to send that story because I know it belongs somewhere out there.
Update, shipped off the query today. I'm looking at another agency today since I have yet another looming deadline. Again with the time moving so fast--one query a week suddenly seems like a ton.
I was very happy to get that note. I'm acknowledged! Yay! I'm in the contest! Yay! When the results start coming back we should have a losers party to celebrate our participation.
A losers party. I like that. We should also have a toast whenever one of us submits and gets rejected. Of course, the toast can be a leeetle bigger when we get accepted.
I could have a lot of fun with toasts for rejections right now. I just have the one so far, but I have four queries out there right now and if they all came in at once ...
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