Thanks guys! I really appreciate it.
And super congrats to Henkel and thegirlintheglasses!!
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- Tue Nov 17, 2020 4:20 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Discussion: Q4 Volume 37
- Replies: 342
- Views: 47457
- Thu Nov 12, 2020 7:51 pm
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Discussion: Q4 Volume 37
- Replies: 342
- Views: 47457
Re: Discussion: Q4 Volume 37
A belated congrats to all for the incredible showings here. So many HM, Silvers, Semi's and Finalists. And of course, "R" is for "Righteous as these are the subs that take the greatest courage of all. Go Forumites, go! (I am pleased to report I was one of the Finalists this quarter, w...
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:52 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Discussion: Q3 Volume 37
- Replies: 445
- Views: 67923
Re: Discussion: Q3 Volume 37
So many good news stories on the board right now! Congrats to you all!
All the best to those going forward. (I'm out with a HM to keep me happy.)
Way to go Forumites!
All the best to those going forward. (I'm out with a HM to keep me happy.)
Way to go Forumites!
- Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:22 pm
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Discussion: Q1 Volume 37
- Replies: 437
- Views: 80098
Re: Discussion: Q1 Volume 37
I have permission to announce! wotf059 wotf059 I got third place. Joni called me Monday and I’m still glowing. It feels so darn good to finally get the win. This piece was an HM a year ago. I made a small but crucial change, lopped 10% out of the first couple pages, and now it hits all the right no...
- Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:22 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Discussion: Q1 Volume 37
- Replies: 437
- Views: 80098
Re: Discussion: Q1 Volume 37
Wow, amazing histories there. With that kind of lens one could even argue if you're not getting the occasional R, it is possible you might not be taking enough risks to reach the summit. Sort of like what someone once told me once in the context of downhill skiing. When you reach the stage where you...
- Tue Apr 21, 2020 1:18 pm
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Discussion: Q1 Volume 37
- Replies: 437
- Views: 80098
Re: Discussion: Q1 Volume 37
Congrats all! This forum is where the messy blood sweat and tears that goes into your efforts is truly understood. I too am out, but will be buoyed in spirit by a semi-finalist this time around. That's my best ever in a collection of many many R's so I will take it and run. But most importantly it m...
- Tue Feb 04, 2020 5:23 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: SUPERSTARS Writing Seminar
- Replies: 93
- Views: 26767
Re: SUPERSTARS Writing Seminar
Have fun guys! Travel safe!!
- Tue Feb 04, 2020 5:23 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
- Replies: 5013
- Views: 1340106
Re: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
Why don't escaped convicts make good writers?
. . . Because they never finish their sentences.
. . . Because they never finish their sentences.
- Fri Jan 17, 2020 6:38 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Passing of Mike Resnick
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5215
Re: Passing of Mike Resnick
A legend and not just on this forum.
I suddenly feel the need to re-read some of his stuff. A special kind of immortality when you think of it.
Though if people remember me by what I wrote, I'm kinda in trouble...
I suddenly feel the need to re-read some of his stuff. A special kind of immortality when you think of it.
Though if people remember me by what I wrote, I'm kinda in trouble...
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 6:13 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
- Replies: 5013
- Views: 1340106
Re: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
No, it's FIVE! From Wikipedia: Five is the third prime number. Because it can be written as 221 + 1, five is classified as a Fermat prime; therefore a regular polygon with 5 sides (a regular pentagon) is constructible with compass and unmarked straightedge. Five is the third Sophie Germain prime, th...
- Mon Dec 16, 2019 12:53 pm
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
- Replies: 5013
- Views: 1340106
Re: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
"Lose not the faith," the old man said. "The yung'uns may not respect the traditions, but in time they will come to learn the importance of whence we came." "No," said the other. "You are alone now. The rest have passed. Shinier, brighter things. New traditions. Th...
- Fri Nov 29, 2019 5:23 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Discussion: Q4 Volume 36
- Replies: 595
- Views: 90699
Re: Discussion: Q4 Volume 36
Wow! Super congrats to SwiftPotato and DisgruntledPeony. Just in awe guys, just in awe. Such an achievement. (Off to change my user name to a vegetable or a flower, clearly plant-names with a preceding descriptor (no space) is how it gets done around here. Wait! What if next quarter is for minerals....
- Thu Nov 28, 2019 5:51 am
- Forum: Writing: Craft, Talent, Technique
- Topic: Common Issues I see on critiques
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3644
Re: Common Issues I see on critiques
Found this belatedly. This is a terrific list. I am proud to say I've only made errors on items 1-9. Er wait, also 10.
As they say, we're doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over until we finally learn them, so I really appreciate seeing this in a condensed format.
As they say, we're doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over until we finally learn them, so I really appreciate seeing this in a condensed format.
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 6:45 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Discussion: Q4 Volume 36
- Replies: 595
- Views: 90699
Re: Discussion: Q4 Volume 36
Congrats Forumites!! This looks like an amazing showing this quarter. I love to see all the blood sweat and tears paying off like that.
It's an "R" for me this time around, but I'll gladly take the motivation.
It's an "R" for me this time around, but I'll gladly take the motivation.
- Mon Sep 30, 2019 5:01 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Discussion: Q3 Volume 36
- Replies: 576
- Views: 92190
Re: Discussion: Q3 Volume 36
Congrats to all!
I am also out of the race as well, but very content to report a SIlver HM.
As usual, I am indebted to the forumites who provided me with feedback this quarter. There are none better.
Here's to our finalists! And to all who braved rejection and risked diving in.
I am also out of the race as well, but very content to report a SIlver HM.
As usual, I am indebted to the forumites who provided me with feedback this quarter. There are none better.
Here's to our finalists! And to all who braved rejection and risked diving in.
- Fri Sep 06, 2019 12:16 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Tor.com opening for novella submissions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3877
Re: Tor.com opening for novella submissions
Hi Beth,
If it helps, I submitted in August of 2018 and got a polite form rejection by email in March, 2019. Hopefully the delay is somehow good news for you?
If it helps, I submitted in August of 2018 and got a polite form rejection by email in March, 2019. Hopefully the delay is somehow good news for you?
- Mon Aug 12, 2019 7:39 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
- Replies: 5013
- Views: 1340106
Re: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
A truly noble endeavor.
All hail the Lazarus thread.
All hail the Lazarus thread.
- Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:27 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Discussion: Q2, Volume 36
- Replies: 391
- Views: 58609
Re: Discussion: Q2, Volume 36
So last evening was a Thursday, was it? Congratulations to all ! ! ! Including those who are still going forward. (This does not include me. I'll take my HM and run.) To those who got an "R" this time around, rest assured everyone here knows something of the blood and sweat that went into ...
- Wed May 15, 2019 9:48 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Discussion: Q1 Volume 36
- Replies: 537
- Views: 74983
Re: Discussion: Q1 Volume 36
5 times a finalist?! I can't even fathom that level of consistent awesome. The sheer difficulty of that has got to be on par with the Golden Pen. WoTF Legend.
Mass Congratulations.
(And congrats to all who gutted it out this quarter!)
Mass Congratulations.
(And congrats to all who gutted it out this quarter!)
- Wed Dec 12, 2018 5:49 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
- Replies: 5013
- Views: 1340106
Re: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
Congrats Moon! That is really amazing and well deserved. I look forward to reading your story and watching the ceremony.
(That was a Q4, Volume 35 win for posterity's sake)
I wonder how many WoTF winners have posted in this thread of threads over the years?
(That was a Q4, Volume 35 win for posterity's sake)
I wonder how many WoTF winners have posted in this thread of threads over the years?
- Thu Nov 22, 2018 6:24 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
- Replies: 5013
- Views: 1340106
Re: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
... So the past, present and future all walked into a bar at the same time.
It was tense.
It was tense.
- Thu Nov 15, 2018 6:12 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Discussion: Q4 Volume 35
- Replies: 311
- Views: 52502
Re: Discussion: Q4 Volume 35
Congrats people! Looks like the forumites are having a great quarter!
(R for me... on to the next one.)
(R for me... on to the next one.)
- Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:39 pm
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
- Replies: 5013
- Views: 1340106
Re: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
And then... A hungry African lion came across two men. One was sitting under a tree reading a book. The other was typing away on his typewriter. The lion immediately pounced on the man reading the book and quickly devoured him. ...Even the king of the jungle knows that readers digest and writers cra...
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 5:02 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
- Replies: 5013
- Views: 1340106
Re: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
So...
Times New Roman and Courier New walk into a bar...
The Barkeep says:
"I'm sorry, we don't serve your type."
Times New Roman and Courier New walk into a bar...
The Barkeep says:
"I'm sorry, we don't serve your type."
- Thu Aug 30, 2018 5:05 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
- Replies: 5013
- Views: 1340106
Re: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
Good question!
Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?
Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?
- Wed Aug 29, 2018 4:17 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
- Replies: 5013
- Views: 1340106
Re: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
Why do people drive in parkways but park in driveways?
- Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:45 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Hooked on the Dragon
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5798
Re: Hooked on the Dragon
I can't imagine why it would matter how the words got on the page in its original manuscript. I would have guessed the reader would never know in the end and so it wouldn't matter. As long as you have given the text its hard core edit the result should be the same. Is there something about the act o...
- Tue Feb 13, 2018 9:11 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
- Replies: 5013
- Views: 1340106
Re: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
Engages in thread necromancy:
Somebody should have said: "You ain't seen nothing yet."
gower21 in 2012 wrote:... And congrats on getting us to page 70 on the longest thread on the board ever.
Somebody should have said: "You ain't seen nothing yet."
- Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:53 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
- Replies: 5013
- Views: 1340106
Re: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
This might be jumping the gun a bit, but seeing how a lot of forum members have already turned in their Q4 stories and are working on Q1, I thought I'd start this thread. For Q1 I'm writing a Fantasy. My last three entries have been more science fiction. I love science fiction, love to read it, but...
- Wed Nov 15, 2017 1:30 pm
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
- Replies: 5013
- Views: 1340106
Re: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
That's okay by me, they're cool even when used sparingly.