I had entered the Grindstone Literary Contest with the first 5k words of my novel, currently named, Murder at The Peanut Patch, An Andi Raye Mystery. I was excited to finally have enough words to enter a contest for my fiction writing. I got my results back today and I wasn’t even longlisted for the prize. That was the main goal. If longlisted, I would have my work in front of agents and the journey to being traditionally published would begin. I suppose that journey has already begun.
I would be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed. In the past, I would have written off writing and proclaimed this isn’t for me. How much I’ve grown! The one phrase that gives me comfort, “a delay is not a denial.”
Getting published traditionally and hitting the NYT Bestseller list is the main goal but I’m also aware that getting to write for a living is a huge goal in and of itself. So even though I am disappointed about not being considered for this contest, I’m handling it because writing is my calling. There is no denying or disappointment in knowing what you were put on this Earth to do.
Until next time,
Xoxo~Christilisa