Jinx?

[bcholmes]

I think I may still believe in jinxing. Y'know: something good happens, but you don't want to talk about it until it's a completely done deal. Is that superstitious?

I mean, the story's been accepted. It's not published yet, true, but I've got all this happy energy and I can't help wanting to bounce.

Comments

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

let me know when i can congratulate you, then. (and where i can buy it!)

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I think that it's okay to bounce quietly. You only jinx it if you bounce flagrantly, especially in view of unhappy people.

[snickerpuss.livejournal.com]

You can bounce quietly, jiggle your knees up and down under your desk, whistle happily and tilt your jaunty-hat-wearin' head to and fro', but that's it. Otherwise, poof, the publisher in question goes out of business before your story comes out. (I speak from experience.) *grave nod*

_{good goin'}

poof

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

I used to have a short story that, whenever I submitted it to a magazine, the magazine folded.

Re: poof

[jodawi.livejournal.com]

'used to have'?

did you destroy it so it wouldn't fall into the wrong hands?

Re: poof

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

You can't fool me like that. What, you think I'd tell you what happened to the story so you could steal the plans and become a supervillain? I think not.

Re: poof

[jodawi.livejournal.com]

sniffle. *remains a stuporvillain*

wtf?

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

??

!!!

[iamjw.livejournal.com]

And from the north there comes a very quiet, non-jinxing, yay!