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Congrats to the winners!

Caught this on the Youtube channel for the first time. Such an awesome night!

Don't think I'm going to have anything ready this Quarter. Shooting for next at this point. J'nae Me either. My current story has potential but all the feedback makes it clear it needs more work and which I agree with. Much as I hate missing a quarter, hate sending out something not ready for prime...

Thanks! Brandon Mull was at When Words Collide in Calgary a couple of years ago. He was full of energy and very entertaining to listen to. It's a great series of lectures. The quality of the recordings has increased each year and Sanderson has become much more comfortable - and organized - with the ...

Awesome!

Take pics, record his talks, tell us everything!

But mostly, have fun!

Sent you a PM.

I have to confess to being a longtime lurker on the forum. I gleaned a lot of helpful tips that helped with the 1st place win. My first WotF entry was straight R. I got a silver after that and thought I was hot stuff. This all started seven years ago. I ended up with 3 R's, 8 HM's, 2 SHM's, 1 semi,...

2nd draft done. Time to do a out loud read through and a polish before sending it off to my beta readers.

LDWriter2 wrote:So my story is now out again (Wince)

Where two or three people from here can see it and if they are willing to, to show me where I goofed it.

If you are still looking for peeps you can fire it off my direction.

Congrats to all the winners.

Yep, got the very same email.

Heard from Joni. Did not place.

Onwards and upwards.

Best wishes to those still waiting word.

Has anyone who subbed to Joni personally, i.e. not through the system because it closed early - received an e-mail from her telling them of their fate? I fear a R, but hope for an HM. So I'm hanging out in NNiNN at the moment, but am ready to query to put this quarter to rest. Nothing here Ditto.

Triseult wrote:Hey guys. I was one of those who were still waiting for a reply on Q2... Just received it. Semi-finalist! Would have preferred finalist, but I'll take it. :)

So, for those still waiting... It's coming!

Congrats!

Best wishes to all still awaiting news.

Thanks for the update. Awesome to have some solid news.

Nope. Still hanging in there.

If we start hearing results for Q3, I will take that as the go ahead to query about Q2 submissions still waiting for notification.

Same.

Agreed. The understandable confusion that is arising is due to no official announcement of all the finalists being contacted. Everything I am seeing is conjecture.

I guess once we start hearing about Q3 results is when we'll know for sure they have moved on.

Have any last date entrants heard anything yet?

LaurieG wrote:
Indeed. Since it looks like Finalists have been notified, I'd also like to know where I stand.

Really? Funny, I've not been told anything yet.


Kidding aside, I agree it will be good to know where one has landed.

Imagination Vortex wrote:Well I'm pretty excited. Just got a personal rejection from F&SF, and it's my first personal outside of Writers of the Future! I know it's technically still a rejection, but it makes me feel like people are finally starting to take notice of my writing.

Best of luck everyone.

You really realize how long the process takes when you don't submit in a quarter.

KD Julicher wrote:So I queried Joni earlier and learned two things:

1. she's out of the office til Friday. Sorry guys...

2.

Which is a new one for me. On to Q3!

Congrats!

Getting direct feedback is a wonderful bonus.

In the same boat as you Laurie.

Except that this is not the same thing. The system is not down, and there have been cases in the past when stories have been lost. It is. The process, like the system coming back up, is not complete. When it is and something is amiss, that is when I would ask questions. Joni and the WOTF Team will ...

Emailing Joni during these times reminds me too much of my days as a computer operator when there were power failures and the phone lines would flood with calls asking if the system was down and for how long. I always felt like saying the sooner you stop calling the sooner I can get the system back ...

You can send your story whenever you feel it's ready.

Count me in too but I am also a couple of weeks from having my piece ready for review.

I've sent you a PM - Ishmael.

I also like the book, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers. This one gets into the little details. wotf018 Totally forgot to mention that one! Thanks for posting about it Laurie! Yes it's an excellent resource as it provides a great checklist for second drafts and polishing. It also ties in to Shawn Co...

To those that received - HMs and SHMs -

For the rest of us - best wishes.

Amoskalik, called it - a lot of us on this forum are doing very well. Guess we are rubbing off on one another!

Back to working on this quarter's story....