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and I'm so nervous! What if they hate my work? Other people are reading my story and my poem and that scares me senseless!

See, I'm pretty thin-skinned about this right now, so that's part of it, but let's be realistic.....If they hate it, I'll NEVER KNOW. I just won't win the competition. I'll never see any critiques or comments, never know if they hate my main character.

Side note/thought: Since I wrote in first person, maybe that's why I'm so nervous? The story is mine, and it's about ME. Not really, of course, being set in a mining town many many years ago, but still....I put a lot of me and mine into it.

In spite of all of this churning, I'm really proud of myself for doing it. I took a HUGE leap and I liked it! LOL!