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Hopefully he feels better soon! Pneumonia is a harsh beast, combined with a heart attack..eish. That's some really bad luck. Sending good thoughts his way!

Do things really have to get 'worse' or can the stakes simply be raised? Conflict comes in different packages.

So is F&SF. I got the "story didn't quite win me over" rejection. What's nice about F&SF is that C.C. Finlay has different rejection letters depending on what part of the story doesn't work for him and he tends to personalize a lot of his rejections. In this case it means the endin...

JVAshley wrote:Fretting over When the results will come back and What they will be is half the fun of submitting for me. Group anxiety and pillow forts, what more could an author want?

That just took me back to my teenage years! Yes, community stress and fun, love it.

I'll post this here. Kary told me she'll be finished with Q1 tonight. That means Dave has the cream of the crop and can finish his work now. The workshop starts March 31st. My guess is we'll see the first wave within a couple weeks, and hopefully the top tier before the workshop begins. That's an a...

Thanks for the heads up!

Congrats on the sales Milo! That's great news!

Thursday, Thursday anyone?

I'm terrible at plotting or outlining on paper. I have all the big plot points worked out in my head and the rest usually develops as I'm writing. I find it to be more malleable this way. The one time I forced myself to outline, I abandoned the story halfway through

And I just got the discount code that takes $100 off the registration for my friends that wish to attend Superstars Writing Seminar. Discount code is: WMOON Why is this seminar above all others? Well, it's founders are David Farland, Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, Eric Flint (and more)--all jud...

My counsel is this. This is your team. View your challenge members as teammates. Work together as a unit to lift one another up. Share critiques among yourselves, find a sparring partner. You have people that accepted this challenge that are finalists. One is a published finalist. Do you know how c...

Sounds like you had a great time and made some amazing contacts.
Do you know, Wulf, if they do scholarships internationally?

So just an FYI, I've been in contact with Joni and she said "we will have results in March, maybe sooner." A lot quicker than I expected, but yeah, apparently that's a thing? So um... prepare to twitch and all that. wotf009 Ok, yes, that definitely sounds worthy of twitching. Only two wee...

Have a great time Moon!

I finished the first draft of my book yesterday wotf026 which means I'm desperate to distract myself during the rest period. If anyone needs crits on their Q2 entry (or anything else) send me a PM. Two months left! Congrats! It's always a really great feeling to finish a draft. Sense of accomplishm...

GruffbaneJoe wrote:Doth Thursday cometh?

Dang it, got all jittery for a second. Hopefully it's not like last year though. Looking through the posts, it seems like it took extra long to get results. And so far, Dave has posted nothing on his blog about where he is in the process.

Congrats on your publication! It was a good read. Was this one of the stories you previously submitted to Wotf?

Sounds juicy, Moon. Looking forward to it.

I'm working on the climax of my story and I'm hoping to be done with this draft by the end of this weekend. It's not long but not as short as my last one either. Hopefully I can get another story written before the end of the quarter to have 2 to choose from.

Congratulations Wulf! Congrats on winning the Critter's Reader's poll and the talk show.

Hi! I've got 1698 words so far, could someone critique my work? I would suggest you finish the story first and then get critiques on either the whole or whatever beginning section you'd like so as to not get over influenced by your readers' feedback and in case your ending or middle changes your be...

Thanks Moon. I just bought the book. Won't get it for a while since it has to ship to Europe, but based on what you said about it, it's worth it.

Back after Hiatus. Anyone up for a swap? 4K words Urban fantasy. I'll be up for a swap in a few weeks if you're still interested at that point. Until then, I've already reached my goal for this week and I'm now aiming for at least 1-2k words per week for my Q2 story and another 5k a week for the ch...

It would be an interesting to know what the average and median winning story length is, since Dave took over as 1st judge... Any one ventured that far into the contest's statistics?

Welcome Daniel!

Congratulations to all who made it in. It's all about submitting and taking that risk, last minute or early, to see if your story can tickle the fancy of another chunk of flesh. You win, whether you "win" or not, because submitting is the plunge into the depths. So, congratulations fellow...

Happy New Year!

Nope you're not blind.
I've starting my research and have a goal to write the first 300 words before the end of the week.
Yay for Q2! This is exciting.

Entered December 27th

Thanks for the links!