Funny Friday Faceplant…conference nerves edition

In a day or two I’ll be recieving my first-ever award as an adult–third place in the SCBWI Carolinas Writing Contest.  This is possibly my first award in my life that I cared about at all, and I think also the first award that wasn’t passed out in a very homey setting, amongst people I already knew.  And what I’ve discovered is, I don’t know how to ‘win’ graciously.

The couple of times the award has come up I’ve found myself awkwardly talking over the top of the people who would like to tell me congrats, or abruptly turning the subject.  It’s not only pretty dorky, it also makes me concerned that my award moment will be something of an utter fail.

However, I take comfort in the fact that if I do fall in front of everyone,

FFF Con Award Post Jennifer-Lawrence-Fall

Or experience a moment of dizzying over-confidence,

FFF Con Award Post girl in red dress slide_279239_2079069_free

My dear friends, family, and colleagues will be sure to post it on Youtube and I’ll soon find myself immortalized in such lists as this one on Huffington Post, from which I borrowed one of the above.  And I suppose if that’s the case, I’ll probably be up for other awards, so I’ll get practice accepting them!

Here’s to falling, then!

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  1. Dolores Andral

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    Hey Suzanne, it was great meeting you this weekend! It was such a pleasure to talk to you (3+ hours no less!). I definitely want to keep in touch. Send me your email.

    Hope to speak to you soon!

    Dolores

  2. Reply

    I know! That was a great ‘chat’ we had! lol I just dug out your card and will shoot you an email now. As for looking at your query, the next few days are pretty open so if you have it ready, send it on back and we’ll get to work! 😀

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