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Got my quarterly R earlier this week. I'm out.

I'm very interested in forming a writing group. If you want me, I'm totally in.

I think the subject says it all. I'm happy to trade crits. It doesn't bother me if your story is longer than mine.

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George, maybe why it's happening is your stories are good.

Hey folks, Got a personal R today, and I'm not quite sure how to interpret it. Some of you who have more experience with the editorial side of things might be able to help me. Here's the text of the e-mail: I really did like this, just not quite enough to buy it. My main problem was that the opening...

So I'm in. I wanted to be first, but I see Ishmael already beat me.

I'm not actually early, when you consider this is my Q2 story that I didn't finish in time.

I'm out.

R here.

Is this the Thursday we've been expecting?

...or the Thursday we deserve?

Don't get too worked up about it; I'm going to win this quarter, anyway. Nevermind my string of 10 or so rejections (and 1 HM before them, I'll have you know). THIS is definitely the one. You guys can have a shot next quarter. J/k. I just wish they would send my R now so I can send it on to the next...

last quarter's rejection did a lot to ease the tension for me this quarter simply because I now have more realistic expectations.

Yeah, the last 2 or 3 years of straight rejections have done that for me as well.

Yeah, I'm in. It's a trunk story with a new ending, but who knows? Stranger things have happened, right?

I don't know about you folks, but this week is feeling sort of Thurdayish to me. Duck!

I'd love to take you up on that.

My approach to submitting is "Always Enter Everything." I'll be in for the 2nd year for this one. (I HM'ed last year).

My humble contribution to this thread:

"Adroit" in the Theian Journal.

My list is short, but I'm proud of it. It's my first sale. More to come.

And we're off! Good luck everybody!

Yeah, Tor takes forever. It's normal. As a $0.25/word market for short fiction, I guess it's their right.

Way to go, Ishmael! It's a deserving story.

So, this story that is, to use an acronym I picked up from Ishmael, TBTIEW (the best thing I've ever written), keeps getting personal rejections along the lines of, "I like the story, but it doesn't fit here." Well where the heck does the stupid thing fit? (By stupid thing I mean work of i...

Alice, my guess would be something like, "Kick-ass idea, but it fell short somewhere in the execution. But I'd love to see more of your kick-ass ideas in the hopes that next time you execute better." But it's just a guess. I have even less information to go on than you. And yeah, that &quo...

Rockin' sale, George!

Worst case scenario, you get entered in for the following quarter. But I've never heard of them closing early.

I'm in for this one. Took the plunge. It was easy choosing which story to submit: the only one I've ever written under 5,000 words. (Well, the only spec fic under 5,000, anyway).

2 new markets to submit to; I wasn't aware of either one. Thanks for the (inadvertent) tip, George!

Hey, editors! Don't start rejection letters with the word "congratulations!" I understand you're trying to engage in a polite and positive interaction with me, and I appreciate that, but some of us crave publication success badly enough that it gives us fragile psyches okay? Damn, that mes...

All right, I went ahead and took the plunge. I went with an older story (never entered here before) that I went back and fixed up with some pretty substantial revisions.

I hadn't heard of it. It looks good, though. Even if the video does look and sound like I'm getting recruited for a cult.

Argh! Why can I write a 7,000 word story that I'm in love with, but can't come up with two or three words for a title that I don't despise? Someone should start a service where you can send them a story, and they'll come up with an awesome title for it. I would be their best customer.

Well done, Dr. Bob!

BTIEW?