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Dustin Adams wrote:The blog post is up.

https://www.writersofthefuture.com/cate ... y-winners/

Winners:
First Place – Trent Walters from Missouri
Second Place – Luke Wildman from Indiana
Third Place – Erik Lynd from Washington

Congrats to the winners, wherever you are! And to our finalists :)

Yeah it's like having a kid go off to college or something... not that I would know what that's like XD
You miss it and you're proud of it.

Yes, I feel that too. I don't like it, it makes me feel like I can't come up with a good idea. But then I do....

Hello, all. I am new here, though I have been knocking around for a time, looking about. I first submitted to the contest...long, long ago...way back in 1997. I received a very nice rejection in the form of a letter from Algis Budrys. For whatever reason, I didn’t submit again until the fourth quar...

Just scrolled the first 15 pages. They are full of winners that didn't know fate would shine on their careers. That's my favorite thing about this thread! As a new(er) forumite, I keep seeing this thread and wondering... why is it still alive? But having looked at it, I see why. It's a tradition! I...

You know when you have an idea for a story, you're churning out words at a decent clip, then you wonder if the idea is stupid? When is it a bad idea and when is it self doubt? This is what I have to say about ideas: perhaps there is such a thing as a bad idea. But, every single bad idea can be made...

Against all probability, I managed to submit to last quarter, woo! For the last year or so, every time the end of a quarter was approaching I told myself, "THIS TIME I'll finish this story that I've been chewing on for forever," and every time, the deadline sailed by with my story still s...

kentagions wrote:
For me, lucky 13. I received my first Finalist!

Wooo! Contrats! I hope you win!

Got an R :/ sad because I thought this was my best yet yet. But I did realize that the first couple pages are a little weak. So could have been rejected there. Gonna go see what I can do about it... Then maybe I'll resubmit. Never done that but I really don't think it was read past the beginning. H...

Got my second HM. Well done everyone! Quick question: I'm new here, how does one go about giving yourself a custom signature on the forums? Thanks! Congrats! Click on your name in the upper right, a drop down menu should appear. Click on user control panel. After that a firewall may pop up, I think...

Got an R :/ sad because I thought this was my best yet yet. But I did realize that the first couple pages are a little weak. So could have been rejected there. Gonna go see what I can do about it... Then maybe I'll resubmit. Never done that but I really don't think it was read past the beginning. Hu...

sorte001 wrote:Third R in a row. Close to just calling it quits for awhile.

Don't call it quits! You can do it!!!!

Shockhawk wrote:Awesome and thanks... I’ll check those out Eagerink.

I haven't read them all, but my favorites are the dialogue and the style ones. :)

Good luck with your goals everyone! They all sound great. My goal is to submit a new unique story each quarter and learn one thing new about writing with each piece. I officially started writing last November (didn’t know about WOTF till February) and when I started it would take hours to get two or...

PenMark wrote: We should start an "I subbed with less than ten minutes to go" club

Totally!

So I started afresh this morning with a new story. I didn't have time to reread it or run it through grammarly before sending it in at 11:59, but I think the important part is that I sent it in. My heart hasn't stopped pounding though. I didn't have time to reread through mine either! Finished piec...

Well, I just received an email from Joni proclaiming that my story has received an HM..... And then I realized that was for last quarter and I needed to scroll further down in the email chain. Ha! Ha!. the anticipation... Your post almost gave me a heart attack wotf015 I just had a dream about myse...

And I'm sliding IN under the barbed wire as usual....

True story: This is maybe 10 years ago. A good friend is a manager at Mohonk Mountain House in NY. Stephen King is a regular for when he needs to get away and finish his novels. Next day at the complaint desk a customer is raging: "I didn't sleep a wink because that Mr. King was up all night r...

RSchibler wrote:Only reason I get anywhere near 100 is with novel queries. 40 for story rejections is a great goal.

Oh ok. Thanks

Anyone else see the rejection on Submission Grinder? It's been there for quite a few days...I guess it might be somebody who misunderstood Joni's letters about the contest results wotf017 Pretty sure that has happened a few times before. Not sure why. Hopefully not someone playing with us because w...

Okay, so this is what just happened to me. I was minding my own business and studying, then a got an unknown call from the US. I stared blankly at the phone, wondering if this was the phone call that would change my life......I picked it up, and nervously said, "hello?" It was my uncle, w...

I’m much less excited this time, as this is the first story I’ve submitted that I didn’t really think was any good. After 3 HMs out of 3 submissions so far, I’m expecting a straight rejection this time! I'm always surprised. Of my last two entries, the one I thought was great got an R and the one I...

I saw that in the email! Twitching now too... Better break out the chocolates

It occurs to me that I don't remember seeing a comedy or absurdist story in the back copies of the Anthology that I've read. I checked them out from the library and don't currently have one to look at. I've written two comedies, one is a fantasy and the other is a space opera. My critique partners ...

I got to spend a large chunk of yesterday on my editing--a rare freedom for me of late, and one that I took full advantage of. I now have a finished draft that I would feel okay about submitting, if I ran out of time, and managed to knock the word-count down by about 1500 words, mostly by eliminati...

I'm wondering whether I should get my Q4 entry ready now or begin my second novel... I really don’t want to think about my Q3 results, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t twitching... wotf060 This wait is getting to me too! I'm working on my Q4 to help keep still.... It's almost time! Good advice, ...

HermioneLee wrote:I'm wondering whether I should get my Q4 entry ready now or begin my second novel...
I really don’t want to think about my Q3 results, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t twitching...

This wait is getting to me too! I'm working on my Q4 to help keep still.... It's almost time!

RSchibler wrote:I’ve had 100 rejections per year as my goal since 2018. I should be close again this year. I think I only hit 80 last year.

Well maybe it was you then! No idea but it is a good idea.
I'm starting with 40 because I only had 10 this past year so 40 would be more real.

Get 40 rejections I love this goal--I set out, a long time ago, with the goal of getting a hundred rejections, because I noticed that I was taking individual rejections pretty hard (so that it kept squashing my enthusiasm for writing), and I knew that I needed to toughen my mental skin. I'm closer ...