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Congrats to all those that placed!

As to the first quarter results - that's a staggering number of Honourable Mentions!

If you’re writing and reading and studying, and if all that makes you feel good inside, then you’ve won.

Hear! Hear!

Congrats Hannah!

Working my way through WOTF Volume 35 - seems to have a greater quantity of harder-edged stories in it than previous volumes. Interesting - start of a trend or just the best stories in this quarter shared that characteristic? Probably the latter. Your story was great Wulf - and yes the first person ...

Congrats!

Interestingly enough just finished a tale in Vol 35 that is fairly dark - The Damned Voyage by John Haas.

Thanks!

RSchibler wrote: Anyone have any tips on finding theme/emotional subtext for your story?

Also check out - Story Genius - by Lisa Cron- which deals directly with what you are looking for.

Congrats LittleRed!

Got a R.

Thanks for sharing Wulf. Very inspiring. It's rather cool you 'broke the rule' and the passion for your story swayed the judges.

Impressive, most impressive.

amoskalik wrote:

storysinger wrote:

Dustin Adams wrote:It is interesting to watch the high post-counters win and move on. Makes one think there's a correlation.

Let's do one better and have three forumites win and meet in LA.

There are still twelve slots open for this year. Let's take them all!

So say we all!

Indeed!

Looking forward to it. Vol 35 is on my TBR pile.

On the read more front - definitely read books by writers praised as such. Also, read poetry. See how poets invoke strong images and emotions through careful word choice. Eloquent writers, in my experience, write very tight, clean sentences in a way that makes the reader complete in their mind, imag...

For 60+ word dialogues, throwing in a little stage direction to break up a big block of text is a useful technique. Ideally a person's gestures or movement will underscore and/or stress what they are saying. Or can add layers to the moment by opposing what they are saying. It may be possible to even...

I see Robert J. Sawyer was there. Cool! Met him many times and even been to his home once. Also, beta read his latest book. He's a great speaker. Very articulate and very entertaining.

Hi Brittany. OldDarth here - did not submit for Q2.

Firefly, Farscape, and the recent Battlestar Galactica all had wonderful swear words. Me and couple of my podcast mates did an entire series podcast review of each episode of Farscape a couple of years ago. You can check it over at Facebook - Scaper Chronicles - http://tinyurl.com/yyaj4oh6. The epis...

Cool. Watched last year's gala live for the first time. Quite entertaining.

Check out the Story Grid for pinpointing story problems - https://storygrid.com/resources/

Lots of useful tools. I'm a regular listener of the podcast and The Story Grid book is one of my go to reference tools.

Sure.

Advice/feedback from the judges and especially the first reader/slush pile person.

Wulf Moon wrote:And now that our discussion has ended on the topic, with some members weighing in with excellent comments (Well done, youse guys!), let's return to:

Moon's SUPER SECRET #22: THINGS GET WORSE!

~Beastmaster Moon~

Great advice - and the very thing I need to amp up in my stories.

Thanks disgruntledpeony & JVAshley - best wishes with your back surgery!

Best writing wishes to all on this forum!

Making a submission this quarter is not going to happen. My recovery from knee surgery has progressed well but it's impact on my sleep has been substantial. A lack of uninterrupted sleep leaves me with very little energy to spare much less be creative. wotf014 Hopefully another month and I'll truly ...

Yes, healing wishes to Dave and strength to him and his family.

I'm posting this here as well, because this challenge group should be all over this. You are fighting tooth and nail to win this contest. Help yourself and help your contest by sharing in getting the word out--Writers of the Future Volume 35 is now a #1 bestselling anthology, and it hasn't even bee...

Thanks for the clarification Wulf.

So as I recover from my knee surgery, it's just over 3 weeks since I had the surgery and am now just able to start reading again, it's been wonderful reading posts here for inspiration. With this recent post Wulf, I'm circling back to the question asked earlier on point 5 for short stories. 3 try/fa...

heheh.