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For anyone still wondering, I queried and turns out my story got an HM! Now on to the next one....

Wow congratulations SwiftPotato! And very good job DisgruntledPeony! Keep it up. I still haven't heard anything, will query in a few days.

Joni is a one man show. But she does the work of ten men. She's amazing. Most nights, those people are working in their offices until midnight. Do wait for the winners to announce before contacting her, however. She has so much to keep up with; our patience really helps her out. I'm saying this to ...

Remember, semifinalists now come later, so if you haven't gotten the call but have no results in the next few days, it's very possible you're a semifinalist. Ah ok, do you know when the semifinalists will be notified? Also, if the story was disqualified for some reason, they would still send an R, ...

Well, I haven't heard anything... maybe because I sent my story in, on the last day, via snail mail... :P Perhaps it has been entered in the next quarter, though it was postmarked on the thirtieth. I'll email Joni in a few days, once all the excitement has died down. Otherwise CONGRATULATIONS Peony ...

Welp, good luck everyone!!!! Still waiting... it rained in LA yesterday so Joni's probably enjoying her hot cocoa too... probably more than we are.........

Wow! It's so interesting to learn things like that about other countries, I never would have guessed that. Story ideas anyone? A black market for icecream..... I will sell ice cream half off to anyone who's twitching... send proof and I will tell you the location of my pillow fort wotf011 Plus some...

It's only been in the last years that Ben and Jerry's has been available in NZ. But I refuse to pay $14 for the tiny scoop. Oh, now that's horrifying. Practically qualifies as a war crime. I hope you get at LEAST sixteen liters of Phish Food while you're here! $14 is insane. New Zealand's biggest i...

Happy Birthday Retro! If I win with you, I'll for sure sing around the piano! Although one of the main reasons I want to win is the workshop and I wouldn't want to miss a minute of that, so it would probably have to be late at night when I couldn't sleep. Thanks Moon for that wonderful description! ...

"In the meantime, while anticipation mounts, I always find it productive to remember why I've entered the contest and why I want to write in the first place. So let's talk about it! Why did everyone pick up the pen in the first place? What's your end-goal? How do you keep up a head of steam to...

officer wrote:

Eagerink wrote:
May I ask how you email a file to your kindle? And is that legal...?

Here are the instructions on amazon's website: https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/email

Certainly no legal issue when it's your own writing!

Ok thanks!

It's gonna sound bad, but it's been so long since I used Word (outside work) that I didn't know it had cloud sync! I'll definitely take a look at Costco and Amazon, much appreciated, officer. :) Also, when I've e-mailed a Word file to my Kindle, it looks perfect. That's with using no "tab inde...

crlisle wrote:Hello all, I have submitted my first science fiction short story to this quarter. I am anxiously awaiting the results, as are the rest of you.
Good luck to us all!

Welocome and good luck to you too! You are welcome in my pillow fort while we wait for results :)

I feel like I must be some kind of grinch. I don't even ask for the certificates (maybe if I make finalist or semi I will, definitely if I win :) ). But any certificates I've earned (Masters, Bachelors, Diploma, Certificate) are all sitting in a box mostly still in their envelopes or tubes unless t...

Henckel wrote:Last year, the mailman folded my certificate AND it got rained on.

The next day, I bought a new mailbox SPECIFICALLY so that would never happen to future certificates....

That sounds horrifying.

It occurred to me that now that the rules for pro-ing out are eight cents per word... perhaps some people who would have previously been disqualified entered this quarter. Not Sure how I feel about that, except that I hope they pro-out again soon, lol. I could be wrong, but I would personally assum...

It occurred to me that now that the rules for pro-ing out are eight cents per word... perhaps some people who would have previously been disqualified entered this quarter. Not Sure how I feel about that, except that I hope they pro-out again soon, lol.

I just barely made it in with 11 minutes to spare. That was an interesting experience trying to write like a crazy person on the last day.I cut it so close, I had to search and replace placeholder names with ones from the internet name generator, lol. https://www.name-generator.org.uk/ It was kind ...

Yeah, a lot of the paper sub markets were that way, both for short fiction and novel pitches. You could either provide a small envelope pre-paid for just the response, or a larger one if you wanted the whole manuscript back. I did the latter when it was difficult for me to print things like that, b...

After much hard work and some loss of sleep this past week, I'm in! Just watched the lady at the post office postmark it for today. Yay! Good luck everyone! Whoa, so retro! Actually, I always loved paper submissions. It gave the whole process of sending in a story a little bit of an event feel. But...

After much hard work and some loss of sleep this past week, I'm in! Just watched the lady at the post office postmark it for today. Yay!

Good luck everyone!

Hmm, if the HM's are in the top 2% this quarter, I am interested in seeing how many there are. It seems like maybe this quarter was a tough one.

Also want to say thanks to Wulf, and everyone else, for always being so encouraging. It really helps.

On to Q4!!!

I didn't place. I assume that is a reject. Oh well! I've never gotten one before, so at least I can say I have now haha. My story was only a couple hundred words under the limit, so I'll just console myself by saying it was too long. Anyhow, I've been pounding out my quarter four all day, so there i...

disgruntledpeony wrote:

DaneCurley wrote:All speculation that predicted Thursday results: DISPROVED. :)

But every day is Thursday.

This is only my third entry, but so far I have never actually received results on a Thursday. I can't wait to have that experience though The sooner the better ;)

JVAshley wrote:

storysinger wrote:To twitch or not to twitch, that is the question?

I happen to enjoy a good twitching. It's one of the reasons I submit.
Crazy, I know.

Me too! Except I keep knocking into the cocoa.

As a random point, several of his articles talk about putting a hook in the first sentence, two pages, etc. - but I keep wondering if when he says something should be done in the first two pages if he means as they are regularly, or when they are double spaced? haha What an interesting viewpoint. T...

Dave's newsletter definitely peeped today. Good luck to all! Definitely! :) As a random point, several of his articles talk about putting a hook in the first sentence, two pages, etc. - but I keep wondering if when he says something should be done in the first two pages if he means as they are regu...

"Orson Scott Card taught us you never want your protagonist to cry, because then your reader won't have to."

That's an interesting point Wulf. I have noticed that while reading and writing but never thought of it in words that way. Thanks for the tip!

I'm twitching over here! And trying not to count typos, ha. I don't understand how I can read it numerous times before submitting and not see them... one of life's great mysteries....

Would professionally published poetry count then? Just curious.