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Congrats Kent, SR, and all the other placers!

I'm in.

HM for me. Finally out of my R rut! Congrats everyone - onward and upward.

Got mine too. Revised my SHM into an R. This was my first (and likely last) revise and resubmit attempt for WotF - I was hoping it would break me out of my rut, but it must be deeper than I thought....

I'm in

I'm in.

R for me. On to the next.

WillShadbolt wrote:After numerous attempts, I finally placed a story in DSF! It's the first pro market I've been published in, so I'm pretty pumped.

https://dailysciencefiction.com/hither- ... -labyrinth

Congrats Will! I enjoyed the story - fun idea

Wulf Moon wrote:Our Girl in the Glasses got to share her story on creating 5 in 35! Well done, Brittany! Check it out on the Writers of the Future website and see her adorable baby girl too!

https://www.writersofthefuture.com/birt ... -rainsdon/

Fun story!

Thanks for this. You have given me some stuff to think about. I have often wondered about creating checklist stories in hopes of stringing together HMs. I suppose I am still new to this contest and after a few years I might have a better idea of my approach, what aspects to be consistent in and whe...

I'm happy to announce I have a fun story in a fun anthology that just came out last week: The Church of Raw in Thuggish Itch: Scientific . The story was a quirky early WOTF rejection that I still really liked, but was a poor fit for most markets, so I've been shopping it around for a couple of years...

I hope I can land an HM this quarter. My ratio is embarrassing, I was hoping to do better this year. I am still at the point where my absolute best effort barely makes an HM. I gotta improve that next year. I'm starting to think the place/rejection ratio is overrated (though this may be due to mine...

I know these challenges are meant to be fun and motivational, but just to spoil that a little, I have a rules question.... Do repeat submissions count? I personally would say yes, but I'm open to hearing thoughts otherwise. Is the challenge more about writing or submitting? This will be my first qua...

R for me too. Deciding I really don't like the addition of the "still in the running" emails....

thegirlintheglasses wrote:Thursday is coming.

"And I'll have 3rd quarter results tomorrow!!! best, Joni Labaqui"

Thursday is tomorrow.

I always go from the first word to the last word, without header or title, then work out how many # section breaks there are and subtract it, because I can't bring myself to be vague and approximate. But nearly every market just asks for "rounded to the nearest 100", so it doesn't really ...

I'm in.

RSchibler wrote:You can send it my way too. I generally turn around in less than 24hrs

Thanks Rebecca! I macheted it up a bit in response to Morgan's stellar feedback, so it's a bit over 2,000 words now. I'll PM you.

I have a 1500 word story I'd like another set of eyes on, with say a one week turnaround so I can still get it submitted this quarter. If you've got a short piece and can get some general impressions back quick, I'd be happy to swap!

Joni Labaqui here from the Writers of the Future contest with some good news. You are still in the running for the 3rd Quarter. Your story made it through the "first pass", meaning you will be judged now by our coordinating judge, David Farland. But I also wanted let you know that you shou...

Henckel wrote:

jjcollins wrote:JUST got my “still in the running” email; interesting, Joni mentions winners will not be determined by the end of Q4.

Did Joni say that in your "still in the running" email???

Just got mine too, and it said the same thing. Weird quarter.

Henckel wrote:Sounds live the results are starting to trickle in.
Given that I haven't received one of the "your story has been passed to Dave" emails, I'm feeling a bit bummed. ...I thought this was one of my best.

I'm in the same boat. No "first pass" email, no R, yet....

Yeah, I wouldn't mess with the fonts in the manuscript, though you might include notes indicating which text needs which treatment. I don't think there's a standard notation in SMF for different fonts.

Thanks Henckel!

For program code or names of coding language packages or libraries you would actually change the font to something monospaced like Consolas or Monaco. This is mostly the convention for academic and professional papers, but you might also see it used in a Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton or the like fo...

And, Mike, I've developed a pretty hardcore system of version management. Unless guidelines give a formula for submission file name, or are like Daily SF where you copy/paste text into a sub window, I don't sub ANYTHING that isn't [Title] - [Market] - Submission.docx/doc/rtf Each story gets a folde...

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...

I think the pay rates might be another consideration for short fiction. Even if you have the rights back already or only published on your blog, if you sell a story with that material in it you're technically reprinting it. You could make the argument that it's a new piece of work, but some editors ...

I was just reading Deep Magic's guidelines and saw they listed it as one of their top 3 problems a couple of years ago, so it must be fairly common: https://www.eschlerediting.com/top-three-short-story-mistakes/ For me, it's usually just laziness. You get through the climax and get to what seems lik...