Simply having submitted something feels validating, like somehow I haven’t been a “real writer” all this time because I wasn’t trying to publish. As I said to Ashley Hackett, I’m in the soup with all of you now! Huge shout out to Ashley for being an inspiration with her 1000 Rejections Challenge. My writer friends should check it out. She posts a monthly round up and I made the cut for March. Looking forward to commiserating with the community there when the rejections start rolling in.