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For those who have submitted to Galaxy's Edge previously, did any of you receive a confirmation that your story was received? I did not, and based on activity in The Grinder, looks like most results come back within 12 days or so. My story's been out 14 days, and I just want to make sure Galaxy rec...

Sataris wrote:welp, took some time to let everything sink in, buuut


first place!

we've spent the last 2 weeks being stalked by a bear

long, strange-but-true story.

Awesome!! Congratulations. And enjoy yourself - but you will have to tell the bear story sometime -

So I'd say go for it. Submit what you think is the best version of the story, not what you think the editor thinks is the best version of the story (except for small/obvious things like length, profanity levels, ect.). I was really not sure about my Q1 submission - I knew it was really a different ...

Dustin Adams wrote:Link:

https://www.writersofthefuture.com/writ ... 8-winners/

Thanks, that saved me some work! (I can never find those lists easily for some reason)

wotf059 Second place! I still can't believe it. wotf010 wotf009 WOW! That was exciting. I started looking at this thread a little before your post about getting bumped up to finalist, and was really hoping you'd get picked, and then suddenly there you were! You did it!!!! And then, your personal st...

When I saw this thread awhile ago, I went and joined Critters. I do now have a story available for critique, if anyone wants to read and critique it.

The story is titled, "As Mysterious as a Cat."

It's my Q1 reject, by the way.

Thanks!

Chris

Orson Scott Card's "Ender" series, especially the "Earth..." prequels (really surprised these didn't make the list) ~Morgan Yeah - good point! I think Enders Game is one of the top ten science fiction books ever written. (Although - I never read the rest - but I plan to someday)

Very cool list! I started out OK, but faded in the latter half of the (sci-fi) list. I think I will go get Neuromancer. Seems time. Interesting about The Shining. I wonder why. I've been discussing "character" again with a writer friend, and it seems that might fall under that category? A...

Except for a few stories, that's a good "History of SFF" but nothing that's currently being published. Certainly, if you're into the history of SFF, read those books (or just for enjoyment). But if you're working on being a professional writer in this day and age, read the stories that ha...

Thanks. That’s a great list. There are some on there I’m not familiar with but will check out in the future. For me, I’d want to add David Brin to the science fiction books. The Postman is my favorite post-apocalyptic story and The Practice Effect is a very neat little book that shows how you can ha...

Congrats to everyone - I imagine the finalists are not getting any sleep tonight! I hope I get to have that problem some day.

When Joni calls the finalists does it show up on caller ID as private? If so, I think I may have missed the call.... It sure does. I answered an "unknown" number this afternoon hoping it was her. Grrr... OK - So this had me going for a minute since I got a no ID call and ignored it and th...

Here's some great advice from Marion Zimmer Bradley on what editors are looking for.

I love the repeated: EDITORS DO NOT BUY STORIES BECAUSE THEY ARE WELL WRITTEN

http://mzbworks.com/why.htm

I was just about to make a suggestion along these lines -- In other forums I've seen where they find people who are active in the forum that they learn to trust and give them the power to delete inappropriate posts - etc. It takes a little leap of faith - but its worth it to avoid the spam. It could...

I saw this subject come up within another thread - on another subject and, a) I lost it, and b) figure it warrants it's own thread anyway.

So - when you're trying to come up with new stories - where do you get your ideas/inspiration?

For me this was a thought experiment - I hope to do both of course. But I see advice about the need to write quickly if you want writing to be a career - and then other advice that you need to write slow - in order to fully develop your stories. The last story I worked on was about 20 pages, and it ...

Got a personal rejection from F&SF last night. That’s pretty delightful, for me. I got a form rejection from them a few months ago on a different story. I still want that first sale, of course, but like you guys said, this means I’m on the right track. Just keep writing, finishing, and submitti...

I know it's a false dichotomy, but if you had to choose a) or b) below - which would you choose? a) an ability to churn out decent stories that sold in such numbers that you could quit your day job and just write for the rest of your life, but the stories had no staying power and no impact beyond ju...

I HATE HATE HATE the title of my current story -- but was going to just ignore it and submit - but this discussion has been an inspiration -- I've already come up something better -- it can still use some work but much better than what I had

Interesting - but - my two page story turned into 20!

"Just counted my submissions for Writers of the Future. We hit an all-time high again. 20% higher than the previous record, set last quarter.Let the judging, begin . . ." On Dave's facebook page. wotf003 wotf003 wotf003 Ugh! So - more and more competition. Good for the contest I guess. I ...

I'm pretty excited about my story for Q1. It, and a bunch of ideas, came to me in June while I was still flying high from the HM. It's pretty out there though - so not sure if it's a great story or just a silly idea. I hope to be submitting it to my writer's group in a couple weeks - so will see wha...

Sounds good -- I've got one about ready for Q1, a good beginning for Q2, an decent idea for Q3, and if nothing better comes to mind I can finish reworking my HM for Q4.

Awesome advice -- thanks all!

Thanks!

What are all the possible contest results? I see lots of people with SHM - what is that? I think I've seen others that I don't know what they mean. And is R reject? If you don't win anything do you get a reject, or does that mean your entry didn't meet the requirements?

Would it be safe to assume getting an honorable mention increases the odds of getting that story published somewhere? Are there any publications you know of that seem to especially like stories that get an honorable mention? Thanks -

Any thoughts on how short would be too short for the contest? Any one know of any really short stories that have won? Say, about 2,000-3,000 words?

So I love having surprise endings on my stories. But, then there's always that struggle with giving enough information so that the end seems inevitable - in hindsight - but not giving so much as to have the surprise come too soon. This is especially difficult given the wide range of potential reader...

Howdy: I'm Chris. I recently learned I got an Honorable Mention in the Q2 2017 contest! That's really got me stoked!! Someone in the Facebook Fantasy & Science Fiction Writers group suggested I join this group, so I did. I'm actually at work just now so can't hang out but I'm looking forward to ...