Sara Troy's Art of Positive Living

Writers have a special relationship with rejection.  When I first began as a writer (before email) and sent a manuscript off to publishers you could usually tell when it was the beginning of the month by the thud of a rejected manuscript dropping through the letterbox.  I remember one time I had a manuscript rejected by return of post!  As a writer, more than most creatives, you have to develop a very thick skin pretty early on.

When I was teacher, (I used to run a Master’s program in Creative Writing), students would fear rejection and I would tell them that it’s a badge of honour.  Firstly it means you have actually completed a novel, not everyone who starts a book finishes it. Secondly you found the courage to send it out for appraisal.  OK they didn’t like it and you probably didn’t get back a letter explaining why, but was it sent to the right person to start with?  What can you learn from the experience?

It’s pretty much the same with relationships.  The reason many relationships fail is because one doesn’t apply the same logic to ‘love’ as your manuscript.

Is this the right person for me?  What do they like?  What have we got in common?
What have they published (or dated) before, how did that work out?  Are they open to discussion?  Do they go out there looking for new talent or wait for it to come to them?  Is there a writers’ conference you could go to meet agents and editors in person and pitch to?  Does that even work?  What if they don’t like the look of you? Or hate your pitch?  What then?

Matching is a science.  Match.com is successful because they use an algorithm to ‘match’ your needs and desires to another person and if they coincide enough on the scale, then the chances are you’ll like each other and form a bonding.  Well, you have to do that with your creative work too and the specific people you might pitch to.

You have spend months, sometimes years working on your book, with luck you will have also shown it to first readers and taken onboard their feedback and made changes.  Believe me, if you think you can write a book that doesn’t need changes you really aren’t ready to show it anyone yet.  A novel needs a collaborator, that reader to make it real.  We aren’t just talking about errors of punctuation or spelling.  We are talking about whether a character is convincing, or a given situation works.  I can cite many instances when a readers input has made my work better, from the angle of a gunshot wound, to how a girl might react to a specific situation or even what they are wearing or might eat.  This is important, because if your reader cares enough to worry about a detail, he or she has already accepted the character is real.

It’s tougher to sell a novel now.  You will see agents on-line who will say just send me five pages.  I know this is true because my former editor would reject a book from reading just one page and if it didn’t grab her she was only too happy to reject as there would be several hundred a month to get through, every month and with the best will in the world, your work has to be very special indeed if it can cut through an agents or editor’s wall of indifference.  Who could blame them?

So it is incredibly important to read the guidelines.  It is just as hard to get an agent as a publisher and the Writer’s Handbook will tell you that few, very few, have a door open and even there they will reject 95% of them because they don’t match their tastes or requirements.  Still writing Vampire books?  Didn’t you know that is so over?

To avoid rejection you will have to do a great deal of research.

You have to find the agent who likes your genre (check their website and they will gladly tell you what they dislike, what they want from you and follow the submission guides to the letter. Don’t waste their time).

Or find the publisher that needs a fresh take on an old subject or more rarely, something unique.  It’s one of the anomalies of publishing that everyone wants something new but no one wants something completely different, as they don’t know how to pitch it to their sales people.

Even more important than what you have written now, is your presence on social media.  Got one million followers on Facebook or Instagram, they will probably come to you.  If you are an old curmudgeon like me who loathes Facebook and doesn’t follow anyone anywhere – publishers and agents will pass you over, even if you have written something terrific.  It’s a changed world.  If you aren’t shaping the world around you, they aren’t going to do it for you.  Marketing budgets have been slashed.
The truth is, it is easier to reject than accept.  It’s not them, it’s you.

So now you know. Treat your great novel with respect.  If you get advice, act on it. Revise, rethink, re-title, sometimes editors can just hate a title. Work at your opening lines, check there really is a plot and that characters are ‘real’ and have clearly visible different identities. If you love a particular novel by someone – ask yourself why does that work so well? What was so special about it that it got across the minefield of the selection process? I used to say to my students you are here to read as well as write. Was Gone Girl a success because of who she knew, or simply because it was a terrific tightly plotted pacy thriller? (It’s the latter if you must know).

Applying dating techniques to find acceptance.  (Er, I’m not talking Tinder here, as multiple submissions are still frowned upon).

Every writer has been rejected, some many times.  Each scar is a badge of honour.  If you are lucky enough to get a useful comment, heed it, it might prevent the next editor from dismissing your work.

Remember this, rejection is just a stop on the eventual path to success.  Or as my ex says – another door stop on the way to oblivion …. she’s such a joker.

© Sam North December 2015
author of Diamonds – The Rush of ’72 and Another Place to Die: Entime Chronicles
Sam also joint edits hackwriters.com

Are you a MILLENNIAL? or a Generation X?  do you have a message to impart to your generation? do you wish to speak to what inspires you and share those vibrant beliefs with others? do you want to invite conversation? are you respectful of your elders wisdom do you know how to cross the age boundary? Is your message liberating, authentic, and illuminating?

If this is you and you think you can host your own radio/video blog show, we have an opportunity for you to express your life’s views and interview guests with enlightening ideas that serve us and all mankind. We do not feed the negative or sensationalized hysteria, but the people who are out there making a difference in the world, one person at a time or one mountain at a time.

Our youth are the leaders of tomorrow and we need your voice, your ideas, your creativity, share it, inspire it, and invite it with your own show right here on Self Discovery Radio.

Please do contact me for we embrace your platform.
Embrace your D.I.V.A = Dreams, Inspiration, Vision, Aspiration and ignite the D.I.V.A in others to be set free. 

http://selfdiscoveryradio.com  info@selfdiscoveryradio.com 

Producer /Host

Sara Troy 

You can go for days weeks, months, and even years and nothing happens and then all of a sudden it happens all at once. Opportunity comes knocking and you have to get into action fast.

Well this is happening to me, for the last three and half years I have been building my presence on radio blogging bring you people of wisdom, love, spirit, business, politics, divine knowledge and with those with wonderful tools and services to help us grow on our own journey of life.

First year I was with another network learning my trade, now for over two and half years with my own network and with over 1300 collective hosts’ shows, I truly can say we built this network one show at a time. So many inspiring people making life choices that not only serving themselves in living a better life  but also in serving mankind, what an honour, what an inspiring journey to take, what a fabulous career.

So the next phase that just happened because of a conversation with another radio host and “Women Wellness over 40 and Beyond E. Magazine” owner Lynnis Woods-Mullins, which led to a joint venture that just made sense and gives these all these incredible people to do both interviews creating even more coverage and more opportunities to reach out to help even more people, WOW! Why not, so we have done it.

The Christmas magazine issue will be out in December, but we are now booking for the January issue, we are introducing this concept of a written article in the magazine, a radio interview, and an advertisement with video options at a very low cost. You get 3-4 times more coverage, speaking to those eager and ready to read, listen, view and buy ones product/service all in one stop shopping, how easy is that!

I did not know which direction I was going in, I knew I wanted to expand with hosts into the UK, Australia, and also invite a younger generation like Millennials and the Generation X to have a voice too. I know speaking engagements are coming up and travel next year to the UK and who knows where, but I love it when the universe says, WAIT I HAVE SOME THING FOR YOU and now you’re traveling another road of creative opportunity which is exciting and engaging and so very INVITING.

We can put out to the universe our desires, our wishes, our vision of our dreams, but we have to be open to how and in what package it will come, for that we have no control over nor are we meant to. Life is exciting and I am open to receive all and in every positive way, growth and liberation of mind body spirit and soul so we can all together bring joy, collaborative purpose, and meaningful peace to this planet and to our hungry souls.

Come see what it is all about and see if it is of interest to you and or your organization, we do have organization packages. Life is good and possibilities happen when we embrace opportunities.

Sara Troy

Producer/Host of Self Discovery Radio.

http://selfdiscoveryradio.com/

http://selfdiscoveryradio.com/2015/10/21/wellness-woman-40-and-beyond-magazine/

I am very disturbed by the reaction to refugees on facebook in particular, painting them all with a terrorist brush is wrong and lacks compassion for people running from hell and sure death. Our reactions right now show the world our compassion, our true colours and our true character, be mindful and be kind and understand in every society there are terrorists of some kind, those who shoot people in theatres and schools for a grudge, those who join ISIS who are western and european nationals, those who support them with money and arms, stop blaming migrants and refugees for it all, there is scum in every barrel, look to the bigger picture, the lives at risk, the children in fear and ask yourself, what kind of human being are you to turn your back on them? To ignore their plight is an act of terror in itself.
Time to show love, healing love and come together in a love so strong that it will defeat isis in the end for they can’t terrorize if we always look to peace loving healing love.

We are defined by our thoughts our words our action, let them be ones of love kindness in embracement and not of fear and loathing.

Sara Troy

 http://selfdiscoveryradio.com/about-us/self-discovery-hosts/meet-sara-troy/

I have recently been going through a soul cleanse with Lidia Antunes-Frederico, she has cleaned out past imprints that were stopping me from receiving and growing. It has been such a wonderful experience I HAD TO SHARE IT.

She took me to my childhood to see my inner child, find a happy childhood experience she says, well I found some, but they were always of me alone, but not lonely. I realise that my existence has always been to fly, I come from the sky the universe and my soul spirit and heart are there. As a child I played with dead people, their energy and thought nothing of it, I flew up into the universe with complete ease, I saw things and counselled people from a very young age and I always knew because of my knowing ness. I was soul free and with divine love never alone.

But; I grew up in a world of hate, judgement, fear and lack of soul knowledge. My job has always to be an awakener of souls of other awakeners, from the beginning of my time that has been my role. To show the souls how to connect, to show them their possibilities, to show them the path for which they are meant to walk on, it has been my many life time roles.

But, the world became dark thunderous loud and disconnected. The flight or fight mode became all too prevalent and people lost their belief in a wonderful life and soul connection. One of the things I have not enjoyed is feeling the soul pain of others, feeling their hopelessness, and with time and many life times I too began to feel that way and because of it lost my way. I became disconnected to my soul, my heart became painful to feel, my spirit broken and my mind filled with confusion, fear hate loss and loneliness. I was lost.

In 1994 wonderful women freed me of 172 past lifetimes, of a pattern that was blocking me from embracing my purpose my spirit. It was a wonderful experience to be reborn, to discover me, not my past patterning. I felt my heart grow once again filled with love, my soul had a voice once again and connected me to my divine home, my spirit could fly again and my mind just let go, let go, let go. I was me, the me I was meant to be, the me who was free.

Then it was decided that I needed to be grounded, to connect with this earth and feel its pain, oh so painful so heavy too loud, it hurt me it brought me back down and I fought to be free again. It has been 9 years now, I have learnt what I needed to know from being grounded, but it is my time to fly again, but I had forgotten how. I was a Phoenix always being able to go and get me the knowledge and bring it back, but I could not fly anymore.

This where Lidia comes in, through her working with me, she removed some elements that were still deep in me and stopping me from receiving. Since she has done that it has opened an appreciation for my work and being for which I am not accustomed too. I am suddenly heard and seen and acknowledge, normally that is me advocating for everyone else for that is what ‘Self Discovery Radio” does. I am receiving beautiful notes from people I have interviewed, being put in the books in acknowledgment, they are posting my stations link and logo for others to find on their sites, and becoming supported in my work bringing you people like Lidia to your attention, and I have to say, it is so nice to be seen and heard.

In one of my meditations of Lidia’s it took me home, I have been for so long now be begging to go home to the universe to once again connect my soul to the source, but I had lost my wings and how to fly. In her medication she took me back but more to where I belong now and in what role. Oh I am so in love with my purpose, my very purpose in being, I see my role and now because of being set free again, I am now understanding, even more, my divinity.

I saw a tree a golden crystal tree willowing its branches down to earth, each branch with my love and divine energy on feeding the souls who will now be the awakeners, giving them my love and strength to fuel the world with love and vision. I am in a crystal realm filled with colourful fractal crystal diamonds creating a home in which to base myself on, I am home in the universe connecting to the awakeners and I am free of the thunder of earth, this is my place, this is my purpose, this is my divine role, to serve those who guide others to freeing their souls and connecting with the divine source of home.

As I dance in freedom with the colours of the Northern Lights and the Angels of life, I feel the universal love, I feel the divine energy, I feel my presence I know my existence. I now can freely give myself to my work, supporting the awakeners the liberators, the guides of spirit heart and soul and know that the universe will provide for my needs for I am doing what I was put on earth to do, be the awakener of awakeners and the work they do.

I know I need to dance again, I need music back in my life, I need to fly in my sky and dance amongst the energy beams and play with the Angels and feel my knowingness again. I need to trust my freedom and the people who come into my life, as a friend, an awakener, or as an advocate, we need to support each other, for we all have a divine role and in that, we find our peace, our joy, and our reason for being.

Thank you, Lidia, for setting me free, thank you, everyone, for believing in me and for acknowledging my purpose in supporting you and the divine work you do, we are in this together and united we rise and energies this world into all its beauty and glory.

Sara Troy

Producer/host of Self Discovery Radio

http://selfdiscoveryradio.com

For Lidia’s show with me please do tune in and set your soul free,

tsm-1528-soul-and-spirit-cleansing-to-embrace-living/

Self Discovery Media, is a podcast network filled with wisdom and inspiration rom those who have walked the walk.?  Sara Troy is the producer and host on Self Discovery Media, and is proud of what we are bringing to you.

 I started on a radio blog called Authentic You, doing live shows, now with my own station going into its 9th year (it was PLV Radio before) we have over an 2900 shows under our belt and I have had the honour of speaking with some extraordinary people doing brilliant things in this world.

We cover all avenues from the divine to health to inner wealth to conscious business to science to current issues to technology and innovations to philosophy and philanthropy that inspire a better world. Our guests are liberators, mentors, healers, speakers, coaches, carers, authors, leaders, teachers, inspirers and all are. They have embraced their redirect and now in honour of their soul heart spirit and an open mind, they are living their lives in purpose and inner truth.

We learn from them each and every week, so many stories that show us our way forward in our own lives, so much courage in embracing their demons their challenges and rising up to be the love joy of living and living in meaningful purpose.

I have some fabulous hosts who contribute weekly with their knowledge and that of their wonderful guests. They are living in their truth and sharing that knowingness with the world. They are knowledgeable and so much fun.

I invite you to come see what we are about. We are not just fabulous radio shows filled with incredible stories, we also have a “Fund-Action” initiative that supports people in need on their own journey. We will raise funds that then hire the talented experts in our “Self Discovery Directory”. We share with you the people who are here to help and we fund their services to those who need help finding their way to wholeness. Coming soon.

The circle of life, first receive and then re-give for once we are fortitude we need to fortify those in need so they to can contribute to the world. We are the answer to what ails the world and it all starts with us, heal thyself, become soul abundant, live in real authenticity by embracing our true purpose and be a solution to your global community.

Self Discovery where the discovery of S.E.L.F (Soul, Empowered, Loving Fulfillment) is but a show away. Discovering your S.E.L.F

Come join us and take a journey of wonderment and inspiration.