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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...

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...

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...

Have fun guys! Travel safe!!

Why don't escaped convicts make good writers?

. . . Because they never finish their sentences.

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...

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...

"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...

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....

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.

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.

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.

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?

A truly noble endeavor.

All hail the Lazarus thread.

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 ...

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!)

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?

... So the past, present and future all walked into a bar at the same time.

It was tense.

Congrats people! Looks like the forumites are having a great quarter!

(R for me... on to the next one.)

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...

I am also out of the running, with a Silver HM.

This broke a really, really, really long strong of R's for me, so I am very grateful.

Congrats to all and especially to YM Pang on pro-ing out!!

Very awesome that Kary English took the time to leave some tips and general thoughts here. (...with Brownies no less) Hopefully we can encourage her to consider doing so again from time-to-time in the future. Guthington is right: entirely separate and apart from her new position, which is decidedly ...

So...

Times New Roman and Courier New walk into a bar...

The Barkeep says:

"I'm sorry, we don't serve your type."

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 do people drive in parkways but park in driveways?

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...

I'm hit!! Need to eject, got to... BZZZZZZZZZZT (<---- insert sound of radio static)

"R" for me. Commiserations for those of you in the same boat, er plane! And congrats to those who get to keep on twitching.

Some advice a friend of mine once told me:

Trying to write with small kids is extremely difficult. You should almost always try a pen instead.

Engages in thread necromancy:

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."

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...