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Congratulations!!! I'm so up and down with submitting my completed stuff that none of them are close to 19 tries yet but knowing that can happen will help me do another round of submissions this weekend :) Thanks for the inspiration.

Well I'm hoping that site is at least accurate on the F&SF tiers. It will make me feel better about that collection of rejections at the very least :)

Definitely hasn't been that long. Just watching and noticing some later submissions on submission grinder are starting to get rejections so that ever hopeful thing of trying to read meaning into something that may or may not mean anything :)

I've been wondering this about Deep Magic too. Since I first learned of it here on the WoTF forum I wondered if anyone here knows much about it and response times etc. Been watching progress on Submission Grinder but I know better than to put too many hopes on what I see there :)

Looking for a first 450 swap if anyone is willing. If you want, I'll swap with you. Email me at: corbin.maxwell@yahoo.com Thank you, Work has super ramped up the stress levels so I haven't been able to tweak my story based on my first crit and have a couple crits I've offered out already in my wait...

Dreyer's English - looks like it has an audio book option. I got the e-book sample on Amazon and really liked what I read of it. I am planning to get it in hard copy.

Looking for a first 450 swap if anyone is willing.

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Good luck everyone :)

At last I've finished my first draft for Q4. For some reason this has been my hardest story to write and I was continually battling with grammar and viewpoint problems throughout. I had a healthy dose of writer's block plus I was locked out of the forum, so I haven't been active of late. Anyone up ...

Since I write in Scrivener I use whatever font has my fancy. I find the much maligned comic sans really easy to read so I often use it. Sometimes Garamond. Often I'll change the font when I want to do a careful edit because it tends to reveal things I didn't see before. Then I compile out into couri...

It's great to hear everyone doing well and submitting early for this quarter! I just started mine and I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find something by Dave on the three try-fail cycles? I've heard them mentioned here a lot and I'm looking for more detail. Thanks! There's some great st...

Just want to say thanks publicly to the folks who gave me crits (especially RSchibler for getting through that 12K one with suggestions that I think helped me really take it to the next level). I truly appreciate it!

I know all the logic of needing to be intrinsically motivated but sometimes public goals - especially those shared by others are the type of extrinsic tools that really help me. Hoping that is what this will do for me. Editing has been so much easier for me lately than fresh writing so I am going to...

Absolutely would and will consider lower paying markets once I've finished up with the professional ones for my currently ready stories. I think if I knew a good editor was working on the thing (anthology, magazine, other) I would absolutely be willing to accept low rates for that opportunity. With ...

I love writing flash fiction. So I guess the question I'd be asking myself in that situation is does the story actually need to be longer? I've broken stories by trying to add too much to them and it was only once I carved them back down to a shorter version that I was happy with them. Remember ther...

Thanks. I've sent a PM. I truly appreciate all of you who have reached out offer. I'm certainly looking forward to returning the favor when your pieces are ready! Now that I have two folks for each of the stories I'm likely okay for right now (I don't want to over promise on return crits and I also ...

Thanks, sent you a PM.

Thanks I've sent you a PM.

I liked Steering the Craft - thanks for the reminder - I should go and revisit some of it!

Hey all, I've got a just about 12K story (sci-fi mildly dystopian I guess) that I'd love a high level read through by someone. I've had one reader on it already and made some pretty significant changes at that point. But I still feel like I could use a "does this work" kind of read. I woul...

I have the same problem. I mostly "solve" that by writing a billion sentence fragments (but so help me I just love them so much). Seriously though one of the things I feel helps me so much is analyzing the order of things. Whether it is the order of words in a sentence or the order of sent...

I have a really short SHM from Q2 that I would like to exchange with someone if anyone is still looking to exchange.

I entered Q2 with a sort of "whatever I'll just submit this". It was short and intended to be humorous but certainly isn't actually laugh out loud funny and it is probably deeply flawed even though part of me likes it. And lo and behold I ended up with my best placement thus far as Silver ...

... my stories always start with an idea that, quite possibly, no one has ever tried before (and then I have to figure out those pesky characters). sometimes I try to stuff more ideas into the story--with mixed results. Same! Like, literally. Idea first, plot, beginning/ending, then characters. wot...

Don't know if anyone is still working on some kind of alternating schedule or not - I'm still attempting it and finally have some results to report. I completed a story the other day, and have now also finished the edit on another one. The edited piece is a flash piece and may still need another rou...

I've set up a 2020 tracking spreadsheet. I love playing with Excel so far it seems to be helping me hit a variety of goals - not just writing goals, but reading goals and various life goals. Not a resolution but instead something that is easier to start at beginnings (could've started it in December...

I'm hoping to have revised my entry by the end of this month and then maybe seek out an additional beta reader. But I might just submit it once I'm done with my edits. Not sure yet. Definitely would plan to have it in by the end of Feb.

Wow nothing like pushing yourself Michael. I have gotten back to doing some writing finally! I expect these first two weeks to be about writing a second story to follow the one I will edit in the second half of the month (that one will be my entry for this quarter).

Yes here's to bucketfuls of peace all around!!

I've got a moderate cache of those hanging around the place. I feel like all the ideas are worth exploring I just wonder if I wasn't in the right place to do them justice or if they weren't substantial enough for the length of story I tried to create from them or... or... or... I do think I will get...