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 Ahem.

Good thing for today.

I am now a VALIDATED AUTHOR on The Petulant Poetess!  

*dances like a lunatic

*hugs my betas, especially [livejournal.com profile] annietalbot  and [livejournal.com profile] lady_karelia who had to put up with waaaaaay more commas than any human being should ever have to handle... 

*throws boxes of commas around

*shakes finger at errant semi-colon

*goes back to work 

Date: 2010-10-12 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cathedralcarver.livejournal.com
YAY!!!! Flails around like a maniac for you, for it will NEVER EVER happen for me, lol. Never. Now off to start reading King of Swords...Wheeeeee! :)

Date: 2010-10-12 11:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] machshefa.livejournal.com
Icon lurve!

That was my philosophy, you see. Use more commas! They save lives. :)

I also thought it would never happen for me...

And YAYAYAY that you're starting to read King of Swords! *bites nails

Date: 2010-10-12 11:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anonymous-plume.livejournal.com
yay!!

welcome!

Date: 2010-10-12 11:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] machshefa.livejournal.com
*high fives

*smooches

Date: 2010-10-13 12:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sc010f.livejournal.com
Yee Haw!

Congrats! :D

Date: 2010-10-13 04:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] machshefa.livejournal.com
Yay!

*smooches

Date: 2010-10-13 01:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] slytherinlaurel.livejournal.com
Congrats on validated status! That's awesome!

Date: 2010-10-13 04:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] machshefa.livejournal.com
Thank you! :)

Date: 2010-10-13 02:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pyjamapants.livejournal.com
Congrats!!!!!!! Taming commas is hard work!

Date: 2010-10-13 04:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] machshefa.livejournal.com
It is! *bats them off me...

Date: 2010-10-13 04:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] celta-diabolica.livejournal.com
Congratulations! *admires*

Is there some threshold you have to meet to be validated? The TPP site just says you have to submit "a fair amount" of "correction-free" work, so I was curious whether you could shed some light.

Date: 2010-10-13 04:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] machshefa.livejournal.com
I'm not sure of the specific thresholds, but I do know that my chapters have been coming back with fewer and fewer corrections for a while... and my most recent submissions (at least the last 8 or 9) were very, very clean--no corrections at all on many, and very few on a couple (meaning catching a fine-tooth comb typo missed by a beta reader who had already read four drafts, or spacing corrections/suggestions, or the errant comma).

It's been a very gradual process for me. Over the last five or six months, though, I've worked in a more focused way to try to earn that status. I've really appreciated the beta pass by 'my' admin there (*hugs kittylefish). It's just that now, my chapters or stories don't have to queue, and that's joyous. :)

So, now I'm validated at all three major archives (the ones I post to, at least), and that makes me so happy. :)

Date: 2010-10-13 04:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] celta-diabolica.livejournal.com
*twirls you*

It is cause for celebration, and that status is very well-deserved. Thanks for satisfying my unseemly curiosity.

Date: 2010-10-13 05:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] m-mcgonagall-65.livejournal.com
Congratulations to you! That's great!

Date: 2010-10-13 06:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kribu.livejournal.com
Woohoo! That is indeed a cause for celebration! :-D

*squeeeeees*

Date: 2010-10-13 07:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kittylefish.livejournal.com
congrats! *twirls you*

Date: 2010-10-13 09:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ayerf.livejournal.com
Yay! Congratulations! *hugs*

Date: 2010-10-13 10:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dickgloucester.livejournal.com
Con,gr,a,tu,,,,lation,,s!

Date: 2010-10-13 01:30 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-10-13 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apisa-b.livejournal.com
Great! Congrats to you!
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