The count to one million thread.

16326 Do I get to start a brand new clean page?

16327 Is it too late for me to say no?

16328. Yes.

16329 Yes

16330 -- what they said

16331 -- I'm about 800 words from being 'almost there' to 'almost done' with my short story

16332 -- like done being polished, edited, polished, edited, polished and ready to submit

16333 -- (squee!)

16334

16335 and someone else can squee

16336. Squeeee! Need the rest of the windows cleaned too?

16337 Way to go, Kelly.

16338. And great job KellyS!

16339 -- I know, I so feel like that monkey in lion king, holding up Simba for the world to see, only, it's my story. LOL!

16340 -- now comes the next part. Waiting. Waiting to hear yes or no. Will I get asked to the dance or won't I, lol

16341. Do you know where you want to send it yet?

16342 -- Yeah, the deadline for submission is tomorrow, Pill Hill Press? For one of their anthologies. A horror/western motif

16343 -- we'll see, it's my first run at it, so I'm fully expecting a no, but my hope is that they'll provide me with some constructive feedback, you know, for next time

16344 -- I'm just so happy at having finished, it's the beginning of things for me

16345 -- and I still have a looooong ways to go yet, that's what's exciting

16346 Best of luck with it Kelly.

16347 -- thanks I'll enjoy this moment for awhile, before I get to the obsessive email checking part, lol

16348. That's quite an accomplishment! So is this your first submission of anything to anywhere?

16349 -- and in other news, it's going to be almost 70 by the weekend

16350 -- I've done short stories for funsies, quick little contest prompts with no value other than the wonderful experience of writing them, but this will be for an actual publication credit, so, only momentus for me in that I'm really putting myself out there, in a professional capacity.