A Boost to my Writing

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As I have mentioned before, I do live streaming on the app live.me. I also watch a lot of other people do streams there. One of my favourites is a band called The Stillwinter. They don't perform on the site. They do a whole lot of other things that engage all viewers with word games and fake ceremonies like knightings and marriages. On Sunday morning I was watching the stream of another person who frequents The Stillwinter broadcasts. He was an old British chap. I told him that I had writing group that afternoon and he asked me if perhaps I would be writing about the Stillwinters. I just laughed it off. But went I got my prompts at writing group I decided to take one of the prompts and write about them. It's only15 minutes of flash fiction but it turned out pretty good. The next time The Stillwinter broadcasted I told them I had written a story about them. They expressed very loudly how much they wanted to see the story. So today I typed up the story and emailed it to them. I got the following email back: [/i]OMG patgalca! This is too funny. It's like 90% correct too, which makes it even better, hilarious, awesome. This is excellent. We loved every word from start to finish!!!! No joke. Super cool!!!! We would totally buy this book![i] When they went live today I chatted (through typing) about it. They again expressed how much they loved it. I asked if I could post it on our writing group's website and they gave me a very firm 'yes' and asked if they could post it on THEIR website. Of course I said yes. What a boost this was for my self-esteem and my writing. Add to that I have had two calls for submissions from publishers magically appear in my Twitter feed over the past week. Okay, I can take a hint. Get that book finished! I am so thrilled with the response I got. They said I had their characters down to a Tee. I had one character in there who I had only ever seen once. The story was about a basement in which they could rehearse which they said they don't have a basement but a "back house". That was pretty much the only part I got wrong. Even the presence of ghosts was accurate, they say.