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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chromnos" data-source="post: 305055" data-attributes="member: 5696">Ain't that the God's honest truth. Worried? I'd say I was more worried before after my first submission to a professional publication. Now, five hundred odd rejection letters later (and about five acceptances), I'm too well aware of reality to be worried.Not that I don't feel wistfully hopeful sometimes.Honestly, I think what tends to draw one back to these threads is curiosity. Sure, I'd like to win as much as anyone. But I'd be curious as to who among us did win and to find out more about them.I guess what really is interesting is how semi-professional writers and first timers stack up to the big boys.Finally, I'm not sure if I would sign off all my rights even if I did win. Some people drew their settings from scratch or from games they'd been playing for years. My setting was developed to flesh out a fantasy world on which novels would be based. Some thousand pages of notes and one 150,000 word book later, I'd want first refusal rights at least for fiction before selling the whole concept.-C</blockquote>