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chuckt wrote:Review by the right person with the right experience can be extremely helpful. Be it a paid editor or a really good writer.

As Kate would testify to after her win.

September Fawkes has helped a winner - see https://www.septembercfawkes.com/p/testimonials.html As has Harry de Wulf - see https://harrydewulf.com/award-winning/ I got a quote from September to see what she thought of an entry of mine that had been rejected. She made a few complimentary remarks abou...

Hello! I just have two small questions. I live in England, is that still okay to enter the competition? And would WoFT prefer submissions in American English (e.g. color not colour) instead of the British versions? Cheers! Hey up, I enter in Brenglish. No problem there. Oooh - but then I haven't wo...

6 in a couple of volumes and 5 in a few. Ah yes - can't remember when the art kicked in. That does impact on the budget.

You'll be the one who knows all the ropes. Guess you'll take this one in a little better. I'm sure you'll enjoy it even more.

I reckon the number of (non-winning) published finalists in the first 18 volumes averaged about 3.5 And in the last 18 volumes - average 1. But they get more entries and did I hear a high quality? So why the drop? At a glance at a few early volumes, the number of articles and stories by pros was hig...

These days, if I don’t like them enough I don’t finish. Others read? Don’t let that happen very often. I think my preference would be to be a literary Banksy. Money – nah. My expectations are low. Brand – ha! mmm… I’ve got plenty on my pc. When I play sports I play to win, but would rather have a re...

LucanHicks wrote:I'm up for a critique exchange. I desperately need feedback. I use Google Docs, if that helps.

If you haven't get a taker, I'll take a look. Drop me a line.

Hi everyone. I have noticed this a long time ago, but decided to post here and learn everyone's opinions today. Most of the stories in anthologies 34, 35 and 36 (I don’t know about the previous volumes) have a sad conclusion. Does a story with a tragical ending have a higher chance of winning? See ...

Well done KD.
Glad you didn't have to wait long to hear.
Interesting that it's an amended HM.

Sixth time lucky - it's a common saying isn't it?

Seems to me you deserve to win. Hope you do.

disgruntledpeony wrote:wotf056

About what I expected, to be honest. The story's been out to so many markets and seen so many revisions that I just... need to be done with it, so I've posted it on my website.

I enjoyed reading it. Thanks for putting it up.

Disappointed with another HM - but I reckon I've critiqued likely winning entries for Q2 and Q3. Can I reflect in that?

Dragon - you know how you 'Made a slight error in reading the email' - well the specific mention of the 21st was in regard to when a 5% discount ended.

Anyway, I've had all our phones switched off, so I won't know that I didn't get the call. Clever, uh?

I hope dragon and side-nudge-right do very well in q1. good luck

Dragonchef wrote:

TimE wrote:Is that the inner dragon you're showing us there? My, what big ears. My, what big eyes...

Faithful sidekick!

Aaah - don't kick him, he's cute.

Is that the inner dragon you're showing us there? My, what big ears. My, what big eyes...

According to an e-mail Joni sent to HM recipients from last quarter, she will send out Q1 results on Tuesday. Best of luck, everyone! May the odds--and the twitching--be ever in your favor. Not to be pessimistic, but I think those timeframes were set before Covid-19 drop-kicked and hogtied the popu...

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No twitching for me. My son won’t ride my m/bike on the roads and refuses to ride my race bike. So we had to do the canal tow paths – they’re not ideal for a race bike. And yep, I hit something, somersaulted and landed on my shoulder. With 2 cracks in my left clavicle – twitching hurts. (Chocolate D...

I have yet to read Vol 36. This quarter will be my second entry to WTF. I submitted the previous entry on the very last day and it still felt like an accomplishment to just send a finished manuscript. It is an accomplishment to have finished and submitted. Well done. Keep entering, I've only read t...

Well, darn it, I should be sitting at my pc failing to put words together to make a story - but I have Volume 36 to read.

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No problem. Good luck.

Deleting's not jumping out at me - but the way you've edited it seems fine.

Hey, everyone! Not sure if I’m supposed to be discussing stuff like this on the Q2 discussion thread, but well.... I didn’t see any capitalized sentences in the winning stories, so I’m wondering if I should stick with my plan. Also, I try to avoid using abbreviations like didn’t or couldn’t in my n...

Is anyone out there experienced with electrical engineering? Even just working with toys and what not. I've got a scene where I've ……. but I don't know if it's believable. Normally, I'd ask my hubby or brother-in-law for help, but they're both buried in higher work loads than usual due to C-19. A w...

Thank you very much, Liz :) I’ve got another question about word count, does two words linked by hythons count as one or two words? Compound words count as one. Father-in-law is one word, not three. But I suspect you're worrying too much. My count when I post to Scribophile is different to my count...

I trundle along slowly on the x-axis, but every now and then I trip over one of those pesky numbers on it. On those occasions, I go flying in the air for a short while and get quite excited – then my head hits the bottom of that trough of disillusionment and I fall flat on my face.
Interesting graph.

empressed wrote: I've got a 14k story that I need a fresh pair of eyes on.

I offered yesterday, but changed my mind when I saw that you're an editor. Can't imagine I can help much - but I'll try / give reader reactions or whatever if you're stuck for someone.

Dustin Adams wrote:TimE, want to send it to me after you finish that edit round?

Thanks for the offer - long way to go. Couldn't get past the opening.