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Freelance editor: up to five dollars per proofread SMF page, more for heavier edits, is my bread-and-butter income for eighteen years now, about $30 average net per work hour. The field's pay, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, ranges from $15 to $50 per hour, $25 mean, a few $100-plus out...

A writing teacher specifically? A curriculum vitae for a writing teacher would include teaching credits, education credits, and publication credits. For one-on-one in-person, mail or email, or all, teacher-pupil correspondence, time exclusive to the correspondence would be billed at at least $40 per...

The WotF contest, science fiction and fantasy, fiction overall favor classic comedy's "happy endings" to a factor of about six out of ten; conflict resolution, about nine of ten. Farland has noted he loathes downbeat stories and outcomes fraught with ennui and angst for the sake of downbea...

So... Do writers normally get these notifications or is this something new? Either way, can one speculate that receiving this notification means they have achieved at least HM? Submission progress notifications throughout WotF contest history have been episodic and erratic. Submission management so...

So... Do writers normally get these notifications or is this something new? Either way, can one speculate that receiving this notification means they have achieved at least HM? Submission progress notifications throughout WotF contest history have been episodic and erratic. Submission management so...

SMF originated from typewriter standards, one monospaced typeface of one type size and no format decorations, like bold and italics, etc., only capital case and lowercase roman type. Back when, a typewriter companion template's edges included a straight edge and a scalloped edge. The straight edge f...

I no longer participate in any surveys. Recent and current events have shown those are motivated by malign agendas and for abuses. Even otherwise benevolent surveys presuppose wanted results: petitio principii , "begs the question," circular logic that assumes the conclusion at the outset ...

For general information, anymore, many publishers prefer SMF typescripts' main typeface be Times New Roman. New Courier is the traditional SMF typeface circa twentieth century up through 1990. Typeface preference and mandate varies among the Big Four fantastic fiction novel publishers and the many s...

Author Services switched submission management software to WizeHive's Zengine for volume 35 2018, as late as for the fourth quarter. New login criteria though old logins could be entered as if for the first time. New software, expanded submission management plugins, ostensibly, more economical, effe...

Other word processor software also includes text-to-speech applications, includes WordPerfect and Acrobat distiller apps, the Dragon, of course, supported by several browsers, too.

For the record, I submitted on June 21st and received my first pass email on Sept. 4 at 2 AM. (Joni never sleeps apparently.) Time sent or time received? Detroit, Universal Time Code Minus Four (EDST, Greenwich Mean Time, and DST impact, too) Hollywood, UTC-7 2 a.m. Detroit local time, Hollywood lo...

Hi all, I'm new here, so still feeling my way through the forum. I've written for years, but only in the last few have I tried to do anything with my scribblings. At the moment I have a handful of short stories, three of which have been published online. One is still out, one is on the revision tab...

Grammar principles about proper noun and common noun, respectively, initial capital case, lower case all; and title of an overall facet or subfacet, respectively, italics, quote mark brackets. jDoeDD214.pdf, unique file name and extension folder, common noun. Tent Junk Folder, proper noun. Away Docu...

Read a recent novel created by a standout celebrity fiction writer. Many grammar issues, errors, language shortfalls. Contributor acknowledgments recognize a likewise industry stalwart editor of the novel and a publisher, known for lax craft and grammar standards. None of the former would be named h...

Hi Guys, I'm new to the community. I have been an aspiring author for a long time, but I just discovered WOTF, a week ago. I plan to submit some manuscripts real soon. I know that the next deadline is October 1. I have a question. Is Supernatural Horror considered Dark Fantasy? Would stories from H...

Other labels for "secondary world fantasy," "alternate world," and "secondary settings" include "high fantasy," "low fantasy" for otherwise real-world setting milieus, and "metaphysical." Reimagined, reinvented, or innovated fantasy creatio...

The bane of self-publication is a dearth of competent composition aptitude and editorial correspondence adjustment thereof. Not that the publication industry anymore exercises as much editorial input as in the past. The onus shifted elsewhere, somewhat to agents, somewhat to freelance editors, sever...

Assessments of contest winner stories for years focus on story type: hard or soft science fiction? alternate world or history science fiction? epic fantasy? secondary setting fantasy (J.R.R. Tolkien's coin for alternate world)? contemporary fantasy (metropolitan, municipal, urban, suburban, rural, o...

Followers are an important indication of future revenue performance and a practical measure of a writer's appeal reach. Say a writer publishes and lives in a region where the local newspaper circulates a fiction story to twenty thousand subscribers, newspaper readership, the community populace is ei...

Orbivillein, if I understand correctly, what you're saying is the common practice (no longer the legal practice?) for a novel derivative of a shorter work is to include an acknowledgement thanking the first publisher, but because the rights for the shorter work have reverted back to the author (ass...

Whaaat...? You mean you get to REVISE your story before it's actually published, if you're one of the quarterly winners? ~Morgan Not that I'm aware of. I'd just assumed that Dave (or someone) made final edits or such before final version is published. I was just wondering to what extent their chang...

-- So my question to all of you is this: how would you suggest immersing myself in this (or other sff) writing community? I have no friends in the "real world" that are also writers. I feel I need the support of like minded people. --- Develop a vocabulary list of grammar, craft, expressi...

Overall publication attitudes generally dismiss a few obvious typographical mistakes. Otherwise, common and oblivious grammar faults and errors might litter a typescript, and publication attitudes disparage. Part of those former and latter sensibilities' derivation is due to widespread realization a...

According to a July 17, 2017 forum post by preston, here, the shortest ever contest winner is "The Disambiguation of Captain Shroud" by Gary Shockley, first place 1988 contest year second quarter, and Golden Pen winner, is in volume V, 1989, pages 404 to 406, about a thousand words length.

Flash fiction of greatest appeal and, consequently, publication success potential, entails the narrowest focus of event, setting, character, and dramatic movement, plus, of course, emotion and tone, or transformational emotional attitude toward a timely and timeless, relevant social topic. Flash's g...

Not sure what "thematic resemblance" means. Literary themes involve a persona archetype and a social concern: an individual and nature, and society, and personal life, and alienation, and family, and the gods, and government, and technology, and science, etc., and are overbroad to the poin...

Scalables is the publication business model principle of resales and optional subsidiary rights placements, as much a facet for writers' considerations as publishers and agents'. Digest reprints and book anthologies might earn and, therefore, pay more than a first-publication sale. Might not. Short...

Scalables is the publication business model principle of resales and optional subsidiary rights placements, as much a facet for writers' considerations as publishers and agents'. Digest reprints and book anthologies might earn and, therefore, pay more than a first-publication sale. Might not. Short ...

Back when digest publishers bought and registered perpetual copyrights to their respective houses, and not under writers' copyrights, pre the 1976 Copyright Act and subsequent copyright acts, digest publishers delighted if a book publisher published a given digest's short story writer's derivative n...

Plagiarism is, generally, use of someone else's intellectual effort, material, and work and representing it as one's own. If a story is under copyright, publication rights in particular, and licensed to a publisher, and a closely derivative work is published in quick or simultaneous succession as we...